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Mikhail Arkhipov

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Oct 18, 2002, 11:24:10 PM10/18/02
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Copy music from Carlos Santana's "Supernatural" CD. You'll
get Santana node with Supernatural subnode with all the
tracks. So far so good. But also you'll get several nodes
for song authors, such as Eagle-Eye Cherry, Dave Matthews,
etc.

How do I switch this off? The album is by SANTANA, I don't
care who exactly has written songs.

zachd [ms]

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Oct 19, 2002, 5:17:10 AM10/19/02
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Doesn't it use the "Artist" field?

If you update the Artist field for all tracks on that album, you should get
what you want.

I feel the same way - I like "Artist" where "Artist" == "Album Artist", but
WMP uses "Artist" == "Track Artist(s)".

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Mikhail Arkhipov

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Oct 22, 2002, 1:43:36 AM10/22/02
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Well, it comes as such from the AMG database. It seems
that more sorting/grouping options would be better since
information for many albums comes with errors (most user
feedback comes with Artist = Unknown Artist).

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Dan Plastina [MS]

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Oct 24, 2002, 12:17:17 PM10/24/02
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Yes this is on the list for next time. In WMP7/8 LOTs of folks complained
that is was hard to find songs by a given artist, regardless of the CD they
were on. We addressed that now to find that some folks (most those with
large libraries) want the simpler view.

The main thrust is doing this is that we used to use "Album Artist" which is
NEVER in the file until you have downloaded/matched metadata. When it's
absent, the artist does not appear in the tree at all. With this WMP9
behavior, we show whatever you have.

What I've been telling folks to do is once they've matched their Albums
(Media Information column in library view says "FOUND") you simple do a
multiselect edit of the artist column to be who you want. That will clean up
your tree.

On the many million albums we have in our DB, about 15.6% have multiple
artists so you'll need to fix up about 1 in 8 of your albums if this really
bothers you.


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