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Devices => Androids and other portables => Topic started by: Penfold on May 02, 2004, 04:10:51 pm

Title: iPod - Multiple Artists
Post by: Penfold on May 02, 2004, 04:10:51 pm

So exactly how does this function work?

Never having used iTunes for more than testing purposes, I'm not entirely sure what the benefits are of this, but I can tell you most of my music is dance/soundtrack related therefore I have a lot of various artists that either clog my artist field & make it unusable for day to day operation, or I have my track title field knackered.

I'm guessing iPod 'sees' different entries in the artist field but if they have the same album title then iPod bumps the 'artist' entry after the track title?

Title: Re:iPod - Multiple Artists
Post by: SteveG on May 03, 2004, 04:36:38 pm

Penfold,

Can you clarify what you are asking? I am not sure what you are after. Sorry.

Steve

Title: Re:iPod - Multiple Artists
Post by: park on May 03, 2004, 10:28:25 pm

My way around the multiple artist entries at the moment is to use "move/copy fields" in mc to send the artist info from the "artist field" to the "composer" field. Then I put the album name in the "artist field". That way, when navigating on the ipod, I can start at genre, go to movie sountracks for example, and then see them grouped properly.

If you want to be able to see the real artist info on the ipod I guess you need to make a "[artist] - [name]" field in mc, and then move/copy that info to the "name" field so its visible on the ipod.

This is a very long way around the problem though. My faith is in Steve to get the multiple artists feature back in somehow.
By the way steve, how does itunes get around this problem?
And (slightly ot) why is it that itunes cant see mc last played and playcounts info?

Title: Re:iPod - Multiple Artists
Post by: Penfold on May 04, 2004, 07:09:47 am

Hi lads,

I'm not asking FOR anything, I'm just curious how the multiple artists thing actually works in practice & what you have to do to albums you rip to get it to work (for future reference) given that I've never used/ seen it used.

Title: Re:iPod - Multiple Artists
Post by: SteveG on May 04, 2004, 10:18:27 am

park,

Adding support for 'Multiple-Artists' is on the 'to do' list. iTunes shows a value for 'Arist', we store 'Artist', 'Album Artist', and 'Album Artist(auto)' which causes ambiguity in the system we have implemented for file matching between portables and MC.

Changing MC so that iTunes can recognize the last played and playcounts is possible. I will get to it in the future.

Penfold,

MC will handle the Multiple Artist issue automatically when you rip a compilation CD.

Steve

Title: Re:iPod - Multiple Artists
Post by: Penfold on May 05, 2004, 11:41:14 am

OK, that's sound from a MC perspective, thanks, so how does the iPod display multiple artists that make it such a benefit over plain vanilla 'artist' listings?

TIA

Title: Re:iPod - Multiple Artists
Post by: SteveG on May 06, 2004, 11:07:23 am

Penfold,

iPod will display whatever is passed in as 'Artist'. This issue with MC is you used to be able to select what was passed as 'Artist' from either 'Artist', 'Album Artist', or 'Album Artist (auto).

Steve