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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 18 for Windows => Topic started by: kstuart on January 21, 2013, 06:53:50 pm
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So, is there a good way to do (for example), the album:
Carlos Santana & John McLaughlin - Love Devotion and Surrender
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hLY9DmXXlH4/TCsuk9itq8I/AAAAAAAAB8E/cQ5Il8HFpxw/s1600/51LZS4oiapL.jpg)
so that it appears in lists of "Carlos Santana" albums and also "John McLaughlin" albums ?
Does the standard "Artist" field support any such thing, or does one have to create some MC-specific fields? (In other words, will the resulting Artist field be able to be parsed by other programs?)
The most recent suggestion was:
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
[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
[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.
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Set artist to
Carlos Santana; John McLaughlin
and things should generally be fine.
A Rename operation will default to using the first artist listed, but you can work around that if you want.
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Do I have to use the Artist (list) field definition suggested above, or will the semicolon work with the normal Artist field ?
And is the semicolon recognized by other programs ?
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Artist is now a list field, so you're good.
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Artist is now a list field, so you're good.
That's great !
(and btw needs to be updated in
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/File_Properties_%28tags%29
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Hmm - is "Genre" now a list also, or is it still just one string ? (That's the other one that would be helpful as a list, although one can always use other fields.)
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Tools\Options\Library & Folders\Manage Library Fields lets you confirm field types.
It shows both Artist and Genre are now list fields.
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Tools\Options\Library & Folders\Manage Library Fields lets you confirm field types.
It shows both Artist and Genre are now list fields.
That's very helpful, thanks.
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(and btw needs to be updated in
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/File_Properties_%28tags%29
)
Hmm - is "Genre" now a list also, or is it still just one string ? (That's the other one that would be helpful as a list, although one can always use other fields.)
Thanks. All up to date now:
List Type fields: Artist, Composor, Conductor, Genre
List Edit fields: Actors, Author, Cinematographer, Country, Credits, Direction, Distributor, Editor, Events, Keywords, Language, Music, People, Places, Prequel, Producer, Screenwriter, Sequel, Soloists, Studios
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List Type fields: Artist, Composor, Conductor, Genre
im still a bit unsure about this. so they are list type fields.. but they dont behave that way. and i do not see the difference from when they where not. was tagging a bunch today. composers. :P and how it is now, i preferred it when they would just be strings, because any second name is just there. say you have a lot of songs composed by paul;john.. it does not work. with a string you would find them easy, with a real list type it would work, but now you always have to type the second part. and since its easy to make a list of a string.. :P
:)
gab
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