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[DaveL]

I'm trying to get a list of unique albums in a library using the MCWS/v1/Library/Values URI.  However this isn't really possible since the same album name can be used by more than one artist (think "Greatest Hists").  What I need to get the entries where the "Album Artist" + "Album" returns a unique entry.  Is this possible?

Note that I can "sorta" get this information by parsing the single "AutoDir" field.  But this doesn't seem reliable for all users since it depends on how the directory\files are organized on disk.

[Matt]

I'm trying to get a list of unique albums in a library using the MCWS/v1/Library/Values URI.  However this isn't really possible since the same album name can be used by more than one artist (think "Greatest Hists").  What I need to get the entries where the "Album Artist" + "Album" returns a unique entry.  Is this possible?

Internally we often use an album key which is a combination of "Album Artist (auto)" and "Album". 

However, it's not currently possible to get this using MCWS/v1/Library/Values.

As an aside, I don't know if you're doing search, but MCWS/v1/Library/Values is what powers Gizmo search.  You can specify multiple fields and also a filter.

[DaveL]

Internally we often use an album key which is a combination of "Album Artist (auto)" and "Album".  

However, it's not currently possible to get this using MCWS/v1/Library/Values.

Any chance of adding support for this?  You could either add a new auto field similar to the other auto generated fields like "Artist - Album (Year)") or add support for a composite field to the Values field parameter.

As an aside, I don't know if you're doing search, but MCWS/v1/Library/Values is what powers Gizmo search.  You can specify multiple fields and also a filter.

I'm building a list of all albums for browsing (and playing) on my Windows Phone 7.  Very similar to Gizmo, just with WP7 look and feel.