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Compilation tag, Album Artist, etc.

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Matt:
For us, the field "Mix Album" is calculated automatically.

If your files have a different album artist and artist, which they do, it should get set to true.

dmitch77:
So what I did is:


* Added a new library view called Compilations. Only files with "Mix Album" = True are displayed. It displays panes, showing Genre, then Album.
* Changed all other views and panes to display "Artist" instead of "Album Artist (Auto)".
So now I can look up compilation albums by their genre and album name, if I want to listen to a whole album. Or I can look up one artist's song which might happen to be on a compilation album, but I look it up under that artist's name. These two lookups happen in different views.

Problem solved! It would have been a bit easier if I could have filtered by the existing "compilation" flag that is in the files, but AFAICT, is not accessible in the MC data base. I had to modify a bunch of Album Artist fields to make sure the derived "Mix Album" was set correctly.

Thanks for the help, all, I knew this had to be doable somehow.

lepa:

--- Quote from: dmitch77 on April 10, 2023, 11:44:35 am ---Problem solved! It would have been a bit easier if I could have filtered by the existing "compilation" flag that is in the files, but AFAICT, is not accessible in the MC data base.

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Did you try to make new field called Compilation? MC should be able to then map it to compilation tag. You could then do "update library from tags" to few files to test it works

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