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Title: panes view
Post by: medvedik on June 13, 2011, 01:13:03 am

Hi everyone,

In panes view, now it gives the "album name by Various Artists" when I give one song of the album in the tag artist "artist ft. ......" , even though Album artist I overwrite the album artist (auto). Is there a way to get there the name of the album artist?

Title: Re: panes view
Post by: MrC on June 13, 2011, 01:52:57 am

Don't overwrite Album Artist (auto).

Instead,

 - clear Album Artist (auto) if you've entered a value there
 - assign the correct values to Artist for each track of multiple artists albums, and
 - assign the correct value for Album Artist if you want this value to override the "(Multiple Artists)" value that will be used otherwise

Title: Re: panes view
Post by: medvedik on June 13, 2011, 01:46:42 pm

Hi,

still couldn't get it right. Tried to clear artist, album artist, so that there was nothing in album artist (auto) anymore.
- filled in artist
- automaticly album artist (auto) was filled in with "multiple artists"
- then filled in album artist with the right name, still got "various artist" behind the album name on top

I have added a pic to maybe make it more clear

(http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff364/medvedik2/mc.png)

Or maybe it is a setting somewhere that I didn't see?

Title: Re: panes view
Post by: kensn on June 13, 2011, 02:25:59 pm

It is a various Artist album. The 2 entries you have that include "ft.." will make it a various Artist Album. if you move the FT.. to the song name and leave the Artist as The Chemical Brothers.. all will be good..

Don't know if you want to do that though...

Ken

Title: Re: panes view
Post by: medvedik on June 13, 2011, 02:51:49 pm

Not really. I was hoping there was a way to change it so that it would take the "album artist" tag. But if not possible, it will stay like this

Title: Re: panes view
Post by: MrC on June 13, 2011, 03:01:41 pm

Or more simply, set the Album Artist to "The Chemical Brothers" for all tracks.

If the header you see in the title of the Details view bothers you (eg. the "by Various Artists"), you can change it.

First, convince yourself you can change this header.  Use the Group By sub-menu under the tab's pulldown.  Take a look at the header now, it will have changed to the new grouping you want.

Now, look at the screenshot attached.  Notice a) it includes "BY" in all caps (I did that so you can see the change), and b) it does not show Various Artists.  The reason for this is I did not use Group by "Name", which has a special meaning.  That includes the automatic "by <artist>", where <artist> is Album Artist (auto), but with "Various Artists" substituted for "(Multiple Artists)".  It also includes the date right-justified at the end of the Header.

This was accomplished by adding a new library field, which I called "Artist (header)", and which is a Calculated data Expression field:

[Album] BY if(isempty([Album Artist]),[Album Artist (auto)],[Album Artist])

This will include Album Artist if it is non-empty, and Album Artist (auto) otherwise.

Test it out, and you can tailor to suit your needs.

Title: Re: panes view
Post by: medvedik on June 13, 2011, 04:32:23 pm

Thanks MrC,

that did the job. Never really needed those expressions yet, but from now on i'll try it out more.

Title: Re: the mouse button release
Post by: Alex B on June 13, 2011, 05:09:40 pm

I use the following configuration in one of my views.


The custom field that I use for grouping:

(http://www.pix01.com/gallery/4AD73041-94E6-4810-80BE-EDB7F3274485/Grouping/33389240.jpg)
Click to enlarge. (http://www.pix01.com/gallery/4AD73041-94E6-4810-80BE-EDB7F3274485/Grouping/3338924_orig0.jpg)

The expression:  [Album Artist (auto)]  ●  /([Year]/) [Album]


Group by:

(http://www.pix01.com/gallery/4AD73041-94E6-4810-80BE-EDB7F3274485/Grouping/33389241.jpg)
Click to enlarge. (http://www.pix01.com/gallery/4AD73041-94E6-4810-80BE-EDB7F3274485/Grouping/3338924_orig1.jpg)


The resulting view:

(http://www.pix01.com/gallery/4AD73041-94E6-4810-80BE-EDB7F3274485/Grouping/33389242.jpg)
Click to enlarge. (http://www.pix01.com/gallery/4AD73041-94E6-4810-80BE-EDB7F3274485/Grouping/3338924_orig2.jpg)

Title: Re: panes view
Post by: Alex B on June 13, 2011, 05:19:21 pm

Quote from: MrC on June 13, 2011, 03:01:41 pm

[Album] BY if(isempty([Album Artist]),[Album Artist (auto)],[Album Artist])

This will include Album Artist if it is non-empty, and Album Artist (auto) otherwise.

Actually,

[Album] BY [Album Artist (auto)]

,,, would do the same. If the Album Artist field has a value, Album Artist (auto) has automatically the same value.

Title: Re: panes view
Post by: MrC on June 13, 2011, 06:17:37 pm

Right, sorry.  I rushed and didn't think.  The intent was to show that not only can fields be used, but so can expressions.

What I was going to suggest, and miserably hinted at, was:

[Album] by if(isequal([Album Artist (auto)],/(Multiple Artists/)),Multiple Artists,[Album Artist (auto)])

to get rid of the parens around Multiple Artists.

Good stuff.

Title: Re: panes view
Post by: Alex B on June 13, 2011, 06:47:27 pm

Quote from: MrC on June 13, 2011, 06:17:37 pm

Good stuff.

Indeed.


And a panes view is just one of the options. Personally I use more my "Gategories" views (album thumbnails + a file list), for example: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=61513.msg414150#msg414150