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More => Old Versions => Media Jukebox => Topic started by: Rudy on June 13, 2002, 05:45:23 am
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Doing a search, I found a few old mentions on handling various artists in the database. Also saw a mention that v.8 was going to handle this better than 7. Didn't really use 7, so I'm not sure what the shortcomings were then - is it better using v.8?
What I've been used to is, in the previous manager I was using there was a fixed list called Various Artists - any entries where the album had the same name, but there was a difference in the artist name, showed here, by album. There was also an option to set a minimum number of mp3s to show in the artist/album library, so you wouldn't see entries with just one song, but still pick them up in the various artist view. How's anyone dealing with it now?
thx
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AlbumView (on the plugin page) allows you to:
1) Set the number of tracks for an album before it's shown
2) Define an exclusion list so you can exclude particular artists/albums with wilcards
3) Albums with the same name but different artists are shwon as ( ... but I thought MJ already did this?
Check it out and see if it help you.
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Thanks Rhino.
Album view is pretty close. MJ already does this by Album/Artist, but in the Album View plug in, at the top of the album list, there is an unassigned and various entry, which is pretty much what I was looking for. Click on various and see your various artist collections. I'd love to know how to do this in MJ tho.
thx again