Catalogue compilation vinyl

Various-artists records should be searchable by the album title. The artist line is often just Various, which is a poor thing to browse by and an easy way to file the record under the wrong name.

The tracks are why you kept it. A track list on the record page is more useful than a vague memory of one song, and it is how search can lead you back from that song.

Label samplers, soundtracks, and 'best of the year' albums are all compilations. Catalogue the title on the jacket. A note can name the label or the film if the cover credit is confusing.

Do not file a compilation under the one artist you remember from it, unless that artist is actually the credit on the sleeve. You will search for the album name later, not for a guess.

Private and foreign compilations often miss a search. Add those by hand, with the title as printed. Upload a photo of the sleeve if you want the exact cover.

Search the compilation title and save that pressing. Open the record to see the tracks. Collection search includes those tracks, so a song title can find the album.

If you own both a compilation and the original single, they are two rows. The compilation did not replace the single, and the single is not a duplicate of the album.