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DmitryB:
I'm including the full screen capture for reference and clarification.
I was really just wondering about that display, to make it clearer that the album is by Michael Jackson, despite one duet with McCartney. I looked through the thread on Views and it doesn't look like there's a way to fix that. I guess it's then a matter of selecting different columns to compensate. Maybe use "Soloists" (which I typically use in classical music) and then having "Michael Jackson; Paul McCartney" and changing Artist and Album Artist to one main performer.
Any other suggestions as a work-around?
Thanks!
wer:
Ok, I will just go ahead and admit my confusion. I don't see how you generated that view in the screenshot.
Admittedly the tree is hidden behind the tag window...
But there seems to be only one pane on the right. It does not seem to be a file list, because the controls do not say "File List".
Further, because it says "Thriller" where the tab controls (turned off) ordinarily would be, it would appear he has drilled down into something to get to Thriller, but there are no breadcrumbs. My MC always generates breadcrumbs. But not in a file list style view. But File List views say "File List"; see previous comment.
It can't be the file (bottom) pane made large, because on mine you cannot completely hide the top pane.
Anyway Dmitry, if the only thing you are asking about is specifically the exactly one place on that particular screenshot where it says "Thriller by Various Artists" then no that cannot be fixed. It is unfortunately hard-coded into the program. If you meant pretty much anywhere else in the app, all the places in the tree and other views that are missing from this screenshot, then yes, per my previous answer.
I would like to see a screenshot of the "Customize View" dialog for that view, to see how it is constructed.
Forget soloist. The fields you are interested in are [Album Artist] or [Album Artist (auto)] as I said before.
DmitryB:
Here's a screen grab with the Tag gone. I'm creating Groups within Groups. Essentially I found the basic layout of iTunes easy to navigate and customize, so I was trying to recreate it here. Subcategories in categories. In classical, as you can see Composer and then different subcategories. It forces me to create Playlists, but it's the only way I could do what I wanted. None of the other options were allowing me to get the Artwork and the details on performances that I could customize.
I tried the [Album Artist (auto)] option, but it didn't really do what I wanted to do for this specific purpose. (Honestly I wasn't sure what the point of it was at all. It just seemed to reflect what Album Artist was doing. I ended up deleting it from the Tag panel.
wer:
It's still not clear to me exactly what you're doing, because Thriller does not match anything shown in your tree, and nothing in the tree is selected. Plus, that does not look like a playlist view. I can't get cover art to span lines in a playlist view.
However, I can say that to do categories and subcategories as you describe, playlists would pretty much be the worst way to do it. That sort of thing is easily done using standard MC functionality in the audio view. See the screenshot below, where I have types of compositions broken out. This is all done automatically based on tags. There is zero manual playlist creation.
You'd need to describe exactly what you are trying to accomplish, but it sounds to me like you have used an Itunes model (which can make playlists and do not much else) and are trying to organize your music using that methodology in MC. That is hideously perverse, because MC offers all the categorization and organization that itunes lacks, which makes doing that sort of thing in playlists completely unnecessary. It's like you have access to software like Excel, and you're using it like a paper-tape adding machine.
It pains me to see all those manual playlists you've created. Such an expenditure of time... So unnecessary. You can still be saved, if you can but recognize you need help. :)
I'd still like to see how exactly you're making Thriller display like that.
RoderickGI:
What skin are you using Dmitry, and have you or someone else modified it?
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