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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: brossmac on May 21, 2005, 09:53:53 am
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So I'm curious as to how the (Multiple Artists) classification gets applied.
I primarily use the library view and I have several compilations that are classified as MA and then others where the individual artists come up in the Artists view.
How do I make this consistent...?
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Files by different artist on the same album won't get read as multiple-artist albums unless they are in the same folder on the drive...
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From MC11 Help:
Album Artist (auto)
This is a built-in automatic field. It auto-completes as follows:
- If something is manually typed in the Album Artist field, that content is included in the Album Artist (auto) field as well.
- If the Album Artist field is empty, then the Album Artist (auto) field gets completed as follows:
- Single-artist name in the case of a single-artist album.
- (Multiple Artists) in the case of a multiple-artist album*.
* In order for (Multiple Artists) to appear automatically, the album must be in its own exclusive directory (i.e., if there are files from more than one album in a directory, the program will not label it as Multiple Artist).
Here is the logic. A track is a mix if all the files with the same [Album] value in the same directory:
- have more than one [Artist] value among them
- have no other [Album] values used by any other file in the same directory
- are Audio and have a non-empty [Album] value
Because I have no use for an album artist named "Multiple Artists" I fill the Album Artist tag with a more descriptive name when I add multiple artists albums to my library. It is much more useful in searches etc.