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More => Old Versions => Media Center 16 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: fredhammersmith on September 10, 2011, 02:27:32 pm
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I seem to have a problem with my new library. My music drive crashed, and trying to recreate my library from back-ups worked perfectly, except for the artist album field.
First, I must say that i use a user field for my artist album field, the reason being that i love to list each album under artists names and related artist names. For instance, in the case of Bob Marley albums, I'll have as an artist: Marley, Bob and Bob Marley & the Wailers. So my artist field will look like: Marley, Bob; Bob Marley & the Wailers
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6160/6133399561_c79363d54e_b.jpg)
Of course, I'd like the auto album artist field to acts the same way, and i'd like it to do it automatically, but i am not getting that result, as you can see here:
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6163/6133400055_f46c0b200b_b.jpg)
As you can see, my calculated user field has behaved differently. Some tracks show: Bob Marley & the Wailers;Marley, Bob. Others show Marley, Bob. Manually filling an album artist field is a potential nightmare for me. Anything i may have overlooked?
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MC thinks an album is an album if album title AND album artist are the same.
If this is not the case it will split an album.
Populating the Album Artist is a nightmare taking about 30 sec of your time.
In detail view
- Sort by Album Artist
- Select all empty values
- Type =[Artist]
E voila
http://thewelltemperedcomputer.com/SW/Players/MC14/MC_Expression_excel.htm
BTW even WMP supports multiple values for artist. It is about time that MC matches WMP on this aspect.