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[hit_ny]

would like album thumbnails to display/sort by album name instead of the default album artist.

eg...if i have a compliation cd of 3 cds, the album title is the same for all three but the album artists are different.

i am seeing 3 thumbnails for the corresponding album artists. i would prefer to see just one...as the album title for the three cds is the same.

does any one know how to do this ?

[hit_ny]

i was asking the above to set up an alternative view ..

is it possible ?

[hit_ny]

If not could we pls have this functionality in v10

[JaWe]

Try this:

Right click View Scheme in tree, select "Edit View Scheme" and type in "Files"-box ~sort=[Album]

[hit_ny]

does not work...

if the album artist is different for a multiple cd album where album name is the same, album art is shown more than one time.

It seems the Album Thumbnails view defaults to Album Artist and i cant see a way to get it to work only for Album Thumbnails.

[JaWe]

I just tried and it works perfectly here, also with albums that have same name but different artist. I have latest version (10.0.13)

[JaWe]

I just tried it and it works perfectly here, also with albums that have same name but different artist. I have latest version (10.0.13)

[Matt]

You need to make the album artist (auto) and the album the same for all the CD's if you want MC to treat them as one album.

It sounds like you need to edit the artist or album artist.

[hit_ny]

You need to make the album artist (auto) and the album the same for all the CD's if you want MC to treat them as one album.

This is the thing i am wondering about...

What happens in the case when album artist is different for each CD of a multiple CD album ?

i must mention my album naming convention is to keep album name the same and append # of CDs it has ( only if there are multiple CDs incld)

eg.  <album name>-(#CD ) rather than <album-name>-(CD 1/2) etc.

Since i percieve an album name by its physical package, i got one package of multiple CDs.

But the way Album Thumbnails are set up curently there is a dependency on Artist Album in addition to Album Name.

multipe cd album by the same album artist = 1 thumbnail
multiple cd album by multiple album artists = (# of album artist thumbnails)

Does it make any sense to remove the album artist dependency for album thumbnails ?

dunno... if one wants to keep diff album art for each album artist on the same album, but i find this misleading wrt to album count.

THis might change if JRiver decides to allow multiple coverart for each album.


Anyway i just wanted an album count, since i have a few multi-CD albums with different album artists for each CD on them. i set up a view scheme with just an Album column only and read the count of the pane.