Guys
In MC11 compilations and soundtracks are displayed as multiple artists. When syncing to iPod, hundreds of artists with just one or two tracks appear on the ipod, which is very annoying to find the artist you want. In MC9 they were displayed as multiple artists as well on the iPod.
Is there a way to fix this?
H.
I think the problem goes deeper than this for me. I have a bunch of playlists on the iPod that are made up of various tracks from albums by the original artists. So the Album Artist (auto) tag for these tracks will not be 'Multiple artists'; they will have the original artist name. However, when I search through the Artist list on iPod I don't want to see them because I only have one or two tracks for that artist. I only want to see the artist name listed on iPod if I've actually synched the whole album.
I can think of a few possible solutions to this:
1. When synching playlists there could be an option for each playlist to include / exclude the tracks from the Artist list so you would only include it for the smartlist that has all your albums for loading to your iPod. This could get complicated by the fact that some tracks will be in more than one list.
2. This is a more manual solution. Let the user specify a custom field instead of Artist (e.g. iPod Artist) so we could set this to blank for all tracks that are not part of a full album being synched.
2 above would work perfectly for me because all albums I transfer have a tag of iPod=Include whereas single tracks on other playlists do not have this tag. So I could set the custom iPod Artist field to blank except where iPod=Include.