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More => Old Versions => Media Jukebox => Topic started by: lise on January 29, 2002, 08:00:54 am

Title: Artist/Album and Album Artist/Album
Post by: lise on January 29, 2002, 08:00:54 am
I just tested something and perhaps I don't understand the difference between how Artist and Album Artist is supposed to work.

My track is:  Go Betweens - Friends of Rachel Worth - 09 - Going Blind.mp3

For the heck of it, I added "Various" as Album Artist in the tags.  Now I understand that if I view this in Media View under Album Artist/Album, I will get Various > Friends of Rachel Worth.  However, I am looking simply under Artist/Album, and still it shows up under Various > Friends of Rachel Worth rather than Go Betweens > Friends of Rachel Worth.

Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
Title: RE:Artist/Album and Album Artist/Album
Post by: Matt on January 29, 2002, 08:18:31 am
We use "Album Artist" on all the default views but still call it "Artist".  That way people get the added power without making things look more confusing.

-Matt
Title: RE:Artist/Album and Album Artist/Album
Post by: Callithumpian on January 29, 2002, 06:06:11 pm
A related aside.

When searching;
using alar=[something],       shows in the summary as    alartist=[something],    and no results show.
using albumar=[something],    shows in the summary as    albumartist=[something], and but still no results show.
using albumartist=[something] shows in the summary as    albumartist=[something], and results show as they should.

Also, is there a list somewhere of abreviated search terms like ar for artist, al for album etc?
Title: RE:Artist/Album and Album Artist/Album
Post by: Matt on January 29, 2002, 06:44:37 pm
There will be a list in the help file. (Lise Next Page )

For now, albumartist= is the only defined keyword for "Album Artist"

We can add more fairly easily though, so if there are some people would like, just speak up.

Thanks.

-Matt
Title: RE:Artist/Album and Album Artist/Album
Post by: Lise on January 30, 2002, 03:48:38 am
Matt,

Is there a list somewhere of abbreviated search terms like 'ar' for artist, 'al' for album etc., so that I can include it in the help file?  Next Page