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DmitryB:
But here's another question: the display there "THRILLER by Various Artists" is set to show the Artist (that's Various because one song also features Paul McCartney). Is there a way to change that to display Album Artist instead so it'll say "Thriller by Michael Jackson?"
wer:
Yes, change the view so that instead of using [Artist] it uses [Album Artist] or [Album Artist (auto)]
Read Marko's excellent tutorial (who should be paying me a quarter every time I say that) to learn how:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=68960.0
RoderickGI:
Ummm... I would say no.
--- Quote from: RoderickGI on October 14, 2020, 05:22:07 pm ---Now, in the example you used about the "Various Artists" in the Album heading of the Panes View you have hit on a quirk of MC. That "Various Artists" in the heading for an Album does not refer to the [Album Artist (auto)] field, or indeed any field. It is more of an English statement about the Album, and is hard coded into MC. Whenever there is more than one Artist listed in any Track in an Album, MC will display "[Album] by Various Artists".
That is another reason why I never set the [Album Artist] to "Various" or "Various Artists". That just confuses what is going on in MC, and makes it look like MC is using the [Album Artist] field in that Album heading.
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The Views in question don't even refer to the [Artist] field Wer, so it isn't possible to change them to refer to [Album Artist] or [Album Artist (auto)].
I would be happy to be proven wrong. ;)
wer:
Well if you're fixated on the bottom pane. But I interpreted his question more generally, about any view that is using artist. People are always asking about how to NOT display albums under "Various Artists" just because a couple of tracks have duets, etc.
Our normal roles seem to have reversed! Usually you are the one trying to answer the question "that he REALLY means".
RoderickGI:
Well, it would be boring if we didn't switch it up sometimes!
The image in Reply #15 looks like a section of the bottom pane, so I took it as that was what Dmitry meant.
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