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[nila]

Hiya,
I'm sure I've read this somewhere before but I cant find it or work it out myself.

How do I get the 'Artist' field in the properties pane to display a list of all the artists in my collection again rather than just the ones selected so that I can just type in the first few letters then select the artist from my already defined ones.

For artists like: Mary J Blidge I often forget if I put it as: Mary J Blidge or as Mary J. Blidge etc.
To keep the tree organised I like to have them the same so I need to be able to easily select whatever name I used the last time.

How do I do this?

[V-Man]

Nila, they're all wrong, it's BLIGE!

[nila]

hmm, great

See - thats why I need it


Is this possible at all anyone???

[dmets]

I was doing this last night - I just selected all of the mp3s from a particular Artist, made the change - in my case making artists alpha so "last, first" then the change was applied to all selected mp3s.  it was pretty easy and slick.  

The next time I restarted Media Server, the TiVo correctly alphabetized the artists.  

Dustin

[Matt]

It won't give you the full list if you have too many artists.

Sorry, but Windows combo controls can't handle too many strings on some versions of Windows.

[JolDC]

For doing this, I love to use drag-n-drop.  

Expand the Media Library->Artist/Album view, select the artist name that is wrong, click in the track listing and type CTRL-A to select everything, drag the tracks onto the correctly named artist under the Artist/Album view and it renames the Artist automatically.

It has made correcting these types of problems a breeze for me.

Jol