Three feature requests

[simoncn]

(16-03-2012 11:56)Cableguy Wrote:  

(15-03-2012 22:44)simoncn Wrote:  I think you can get what you need by using the ALBUMARTIST tag on all these compilation albums and searching by the Artist index. If you do this, you won't see any contributing artists. If you ever want to find tracks with a particular contributing artist, you can search by the All Artists index.

Simon,
Thanks for your detailed response!

Regarding the quote above - Do I set the ALBUMARTIST tag to the respective artist and the ARTIST tag to Various? Or some other way? Where do I browse to the compilations - will they show under Various or something simliar?
Sorry if I'm missing something obvious!

Sorry that this wasn't clear. I'd been thinking of sending a follow-up post, but you beat me to it!

You should set ALBUMARTIST to Various, and you should set ARTIST to the actual artist name(s). If a track has more than one artist, you can set multiple ARTIST tags on the track. The ALBUMARTIST value must be the same for all tracks in the album, but the ARTIST values can be different for each track if the tracks are by different artists.

After doing this, in the Artist index you'll see all your compilations under an entry named "Various". You won't see any of the track ARTIST values in the Artist index.

If you want to see the track artists, you can use the All Artists index. The track ARTIST values will appear in this index, and you won't see a "Various" entry. If a track has multiple ARTIST values, each artist will be listed separately in the All Artists index, and the track will appear underneath each of the artists for that track.

Does this seem like what you're looking for?