Windows Media Player - Multiple Artists

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RE: Windows Media Player - Multiple Artists - CyberWilhelm - 11-05-2024 19:45

I'm using Media Player Legacy

RE: Windows Media Player - Multiple Artists - CyberWilhelm - 11-05-2024 19:47

As far as I can tell, the new Media Player doesn't have a DLNA server browser.

RE: Windows Media Player - Multiple Artists - simoncn - 11-05-2024 21:08

I should not be surprised by now that "legacy" software often has more functionality than its replacement Sad

RE: Windows Media Player - Multiple Artists - simoncn - 13-05-2024 08:04

I have been able to find a combination of MinimServer property settings that appears to do what you want:

Code:

itemTags = Performer, MainArtist

tagValue = Performer.default={Artist}, MainArtist.default={AlbumArtist, Artist}

tagFormat = Artist.displayFormat={$mainartist}

upnpCustom = multiTag={Performer}, roleTags={AlbumArtist, Performer}

RE: Windows Media Player - Multiple Artists - CyberWilhelm - 13-05-2024 16:24

This is really, really close! Various Artist albums are grouped exactly how I want now, thank you!

The only issue I'm observing now is multi-artist tracks on albums that aren't Various Artists albums. For example, a song that is a collaboration by artist A and artist B on artist A's album. "Artist A, Artist B" will now show up as a separate artist from either "Artist A" or "Artist B".

RE: Windows Media Player - Multiple Artists - simoncn - 13-05-2024 20:17

In this case, I presume artist B is tagged as Artist. Is artist A tagged as Artist, AlbumArtist or both?

RE: Windows Media Player - Multiple Artists - CyberWilhelm - 13-05-2024 21:06

Looks like those tracks have both in Artist, and AlbumArtist is blank.

Is this a situation where I should be explicitly tagging AlbumArtist as A, and Artist to both A and B in the file?

RE: Windows Media Player - Multiple Artists - CyberWilhelm - 14-05-2024 23:49

Ah, actually just tagging the AlbumArtist separately in this case wouldn't fix the issue, as the Contributing Artist view in Windows Media Player is showing the single combined "A, B" artist also. Rather than a given song under both A and B.

Guessing it's not sending Artist as multi-tag in this case?

RE: Windows Media Player - Multiple Artists - simoncn - 15-05-2024 13:17

(13-05-2024 16:24)CyberWilhelm Wrote: This is really, really close! Various Artist albums are grouped exactly how I want now, thank you!

The only issue I'm observing now is multi-artist tracks on albums that aren't Various Artists albums. For example, a song that is a collaboration by artist A and artist B on artist A's album. "Artist A, Artist B" will now show up as a separate artist from either "Artist A" or "Artist B".

I checked how Windows Media Player Legacy handles this when reading an album directly from the filesystem (not using UPnP or MinimServer). The album is split as you have described. Adding an AlbumArtist tag for Artist A prevents this splitting and shows the list of contributing artists that you would expect.

As well as adding an AlbumArtist tag, you need to change the MinimServer settings to remove all references to MainArtist. Here are the settings you should use:

Code:

itemTags = Performer

tagValue = Performer.default={Artist}

tagFormat = Artist.displayFormat={}

upnpCustom = multiTag={Performer}, roleTags={AlbumArtist, Performer}

These settings also appear to work correctly for the Various Artists case.

RE: Windows Media Player - Multiple Artists - CyberWilhelm - 19-05-2024 21:08

Just got a chance to try this, and it doesn't seem to work for me.

All of the albums tagged with "Various Artists" as the Album Artist are back to being displayed as separate albums by the Artist tag value. Artist doesn't seem to be coming through as multiTag, so combined Artist tags are just showing up as "A, B" in the Artist, Album, and Contributing Artist views.

Here are my current settings:

Code:

aliasTags = OriginalDate:Date

contentDir = /volume1/Music/MP3

displayName = Ulthar Music

indexTags = All Artists, Artist, Date, Genre, Composer

itemTags = Performer

tagOptions = Album.sortTags={Album, Artist}, all.ignore.sort={The}

tagValue = Performer.default={Artist}

upnpCustom = multiTag={Performer}, roleTags={AlbumArtist, Performer}

.profileVersion = 2.2