by Mizery_Made » Mon May 04, 2009 12:55 am
I'm not sure the reason behind the " & " or who put it there, but it accepting an entry for "Artist 1; Artist 2" doesn't exactly mean it accepts "multiple artist" entries. In this cases, it accepted one artist and that is "Artist 1; Artist 2." It doesn't count for a play of Artist 1 and Artist 2 like it would in MediaMonkey, instead it counts for one play of artist "Artist 1; Artist 2."
I believe there was an INI entry added several test builds back that could force MM to submit the artist in "Artist 1; Artist 2" format instead of as just "Artist 1." The change was made to only submit one artist name, because again, these "multiple artist" entries don't show up under either artist, instead creating a new entry for that exact name. Kind of like how MM2.5 used to create a tree node for "Artist 1; Artist 2" instead of showing the track under Artist 1 and Artist 2 nodes like it currently does. Thus, it's believed that in most cases, the "main artist" will be the first listed, and thus it's submitted under that artist.
I'm not sure the reason behind the " & " or who put it there, but it accepting an entry for "Artist 1; Artist 2" doesn't exactly mean it accepts "multiple artist" entries. In this cases, it accepted [i]one artist[/i] and that is "Artist 1; Artist 2." It doesn't count for a play of Artist 1 and Artist 2 like it would in MediaMonkey, instead it counts for one play of artist "Artist 1; Artist 2."
I believe there was an INI entry added several test builds back that could force MM to submit the artist in "Artist 1; Artist 2" format instead of as just "Artist 1." The change was made to only submit one artist name, because again, these "multiple artist" entries don't show up under either artist, instead creating a new entry for that exact name. Kind of like how MM2.5 used to create a tree node for "Artist 1; Artist 2" instead of showing the track under Artist 1 and Artist 2 nodes like it currently does. Thus, it's believed that in most cases, the "main artist" will be the first listed, and thus it's submitted under that artist.