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[jnshankland]

I am unable to make Assorted Artists work as expected.

I am set as follows:

D:\Rip\

[Artist]\[Album]

use assorted artists checked

[Name]

The only albums showing in assorted are albums without artists

All other artisits from multiple artist albums have a folder with a single or more song.

I don't think this is a bug but rather something I have set wrong as it is happening in 11 also.

Thanks

John

[keefycub]

My workaround involves extra tagging.

For multiple artist albums, I fill the Album Artist field with "Various", the name of the DJ, the conducter/orchestra, etc.  I do not rely on the auto function.

Directory rule is "[Genre]\[Album Artist] - [Album]"
Filename rule is "[Track #] - [Artist] - [Name]"

Multiple artist albums will then sort into a single directory.

ex. 

directory --> Honk & Bleat\Various - Jazzactuel

(n.b. "Honk & Bleat" is my genre name for "new thing jazz."  I allow my sense of humour to govern my genre names.  Further examples are "Intensive Care Contingent" for classic rock and "Fish Eyes & Glue" for abstract industrial.  There are many other whimsical examples.)

filenames -->

01 - Sunny Murray - Red Cross
02 - Archie Shepp - Blase
03 - Steve Lacy - Note
                 etc.
-----------------------
Ex. 2

Directory -->

Fish Eyes & Glue\Nurse With Wound - Angry Eelectric Finger (Spitch'cock One)

Filenames -->

01 - Nurse With Wound - Root Canal Splinter (Penetration Mix)
02 - Nurse With Wound & Cyclobe - Paraparaparallelogrammatica
03 - Nurse With Wound & Irr App (Ext) - Mute Bell Extinction Process
04 - Nurse With Wound & Jim O'Rourke - Tape Monkey Mooch

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For single artist albums, I highlight them and then use "Move/Copy Fields" set from Artist to Album Artist.   

It then would become:

directory -->  Honk & Bleat\Cecil Taylor - Conquistador

filenames -->
01 - Cecil Taylor - Conquistador
02 - Cecil Taylor - With (Exit)

Hope this works for you as well as it does for me.

[dcwebman]

Please take a look at this Wiki entry and the other link within there to see if it helps clear things up.
http://wiki.jrmediacenter.com/index.php/Multiple_Artist_Albums

[Alex B]

This is one of the best threads about the "multiple artists / album artist" system in MC:

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=33255.0

[jnshankland]

Yes, those are excellent threads, thanks for pointing me there.

I have solved the problem. Somehow (I think I may have mistakenly used the fill properties from file names option once) I managed to have the artist names in the auto field for multiple artist albums. This created 512 folders and trying to reset to assorted artists didn’t work.

That is to say:

Auto Artist auto     Artist
Little Richard      Little Richard
Elvis         Elvis

Instead of

(Multiple Artists)   Little Richard
(Multiple Artists)   Elvis



I reset the file names to Album and that created 125 folders. I felt I could live with this method better than the confusion of artist album folders. I then looked at the albums that had multiple artists and the auto artist field was now correct. I then went back to Artist\Album and all worked as expected.

If I could make a suggestion, as I am assuming that you guru’s will be helping someone else with this in the future, suggest that they temporarily include the field Album Artist (auto) in what ever view scheme they are using. Start with a fresh album with the Artist set to nothing. When you add the first artist name to a track you can see MC fill in all of the Album Artist (auto) fields for all of the tracks to (Multiple Artists). That turned on the light for me.

There probably is a good reason for doing this this way but it seems to me that a simpler approach might be better. The value (Multiple Artist) is nothing more than a flag which modifies the rule on creating folders. When MC sees the flag it changes the path to start with “assorted” forcing all of the multiple artist albums into that parent folder. Maybe a single (yes, check, whatever) in the Album area that this is a multiple artist album you want sent to the assorted folder would be easier to understand.

Which bring me to another question. Is it possible to change to name of the folder to something other than “assorted”?

Thanks for the help, you guys are great.


John