INTERACT FORUM

More => Old Versions => Media Center 15 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: tauping on February 04, 2011, 08:55:05 am

Title: How to tag album with two artists
Post by: tauping on February 04, 2011, 08:55:05 am

How can I tag an album with two artists like - Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt - so that when I am in Artist view the album shows up under both their names?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Title: Re: How to tag album with two artists
Post by: 221bBS on February 04, 2011, 09:41:55 am

There are a few ways to handle this.

Make the "Artist" field into a list field. In order to do this you'll have to create an expression field, lets call this field "Artist (List)". Use the follow expression

Code: [Select]

[Artist]&datatype=[list]Now when filling in the "Artist" field use ";" to seperate the artists

Example 1:
Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt;Ry Cooder;V.M. Bhatt

"Artist: List" will look like

Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt
Ry Cooder
V.M. Bhatt

Example 2:

Ry Cooder;V.M. Bhatt

"Artist: List" will look like

Ry Cooder
V.M. Bhatt

Another way to do this is to create 2 additional fields, one a list field and the other an expression field. We'll call them "Artist: Additional" and "Artist: List". "Artist: List" will be an expression field and will use the following expression

Code: [Select]

[Artist];[Artist: Additional]&datatype=[list]You would use the fields like this

Artist = Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt
Artist: Additional = Ry Cooder;V.M. Bhatt

The result is the same as example 1.