a book with blank pages used to hold or display a collection, e.g. of stamps or photographs

Rosamond … was always that combination of correct sentiments, music, dancing, drawing, elegant note-writing, private album for extracted verse, and perfect blond loveliness — George Eliot

a recording or collection of recordings issued on one or more compact discs, cassettes, or long-playing records of different songs, etc, usu issued on a single CD, tape, or LP