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Jeremy Langdon
Jun 11, 2003, 5:57:53 AM6/11/03
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Can anyone help.........how do I change the way in which
an album is named? I am using WMP 9 series on W2000
Professional. MP automatically asigns an artist's name to
a work that I copy from CD and this is not editable. For
example, Haydn's Die Jahreszeiten is a 3 CD set, MP has
assigned one artist's name to CD1 and CD3, but a different
artist's name to CD2! The work is thus displayed in the
left pane as "Jahreszeiten (Various Artists)"
and "Jahreszeiten (Sir Georg Solti)" and when I try to
edit this name the only part that I can edit is
the "Jahreszeiten" part - the artist's name in brackets
disappears and is being assigned by MP internally - it is
not the same as the artist's name in the editable
section. Therefore, even though the artist's name is
consistent in the editable section (the top right pane),
the name given in the left pane is not consistent and the
one work comes up as two because the album name given in
the left pane is not the same. This happens with a number
of CD collections (all classical - jazz, rock, etc are
consistent, but then most of these are single albums) and
is extremely frustrating. I've tried renaming the
directories/subdirectories where the data is stored, I've
tried deleting and recopying the data both from CD and
from HD, no change. HELP!!!!!!
an album is named? I am using WMP 9 series on W2000
Professional. MP automatically asigns an artist's name to
a work that I copy from CD and this is not editable. For
example, Haydn's Die Jahreszeiten is a 3 CD set, MP has
assigned one artist's name to CD1 and CD3, but a different
artist's name to CD2! The work is thus displayed in the
left pane as "Jahreszeiten (Various Artists)"
and "Jahreszeiten (Sir Georg Solti)" and when I try to
edit this name the only part that I can edit is
the "Jahreszeiten" part - the artist's name in brackets
disappears and is being assigned by MP internally - it is
not the same as the artist's name in the editable
section. Therefore, even though the artist's name is
consistent in the editable section (the top right pane),
the name given in the left pane is not consistent and the
one work comes up as two because the album name given in
the left pane is not the same. This happens with a number
of CD collections (all classical - jazz, rock, etc are
consistent, but then most of these are single albums) and
is extremely frustrating. I've tried renaming the
directories/subdirectories where the data is stored, I've
tried deleting and recopying the data both from CD and
from HD, no change. HELP!!!!!!
Jeremy Langdon
Jun 11, 2003, 6:12:21 AM6/11/03
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Further to my last - before someone suggest it - I do not
have the Advanced Tag Editor available - it just doesn't
exist. Perhaps it's something to do with the WMP9/W2000
combination.
have the Advanced Tag Editor available - it just doesn't
exist. Perhaps it's something to do with the WMP9/W2000
combination.
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zachd [ms]
Jun 12, 2003, 2:51:41 AM6/12/03
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That's coming from the "Album Artist" column. Right-click on the column
headers (say, for Artist) and then click "Album Artist" and then you'll be
able to edit that data. :)
-Zach
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