rytanst wrote:just run a spotlight search for one of your songs that exists as "other" as of right now. the ipod in the phone will index the collection, and BAM! all of you music is there. i just did it.

Just tried that. Didn't work for me...

Add me to the list of sad OS 3.0 users. Love the new OS, but hate having to use iTunes

Here's the thread: ExtensionToLowercase
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... nsion+case

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Paul-B_UK wrote:What about MP3? I have downloaded two albums so far to my iPod Touch using MM3 and it woks fine.

I'm using .mp3s as well. Are you able to get them to play back on the iphone?

I'm floored and ecstatic to see this feature available!!!!

The songs seem to sync, but I'm not getting any volume playback once the songs are on the iPhone.

I'm running iPhone firmware v 1.1.3 if that makes a difference.

You can set the rating as unknown - it's under the bomb setting.

^Right. Album Artist was never (to my knowledge) a standard node. The problem doesn't only apply to "Various Artists" albums. It's an issue with any album that has "guest artists" on a track. What happens currently with Artist node: The Roots > Game Theory > Illadelph Halflife > Organix The Roots ...

I completely agree. This has been a major annoyance for me. Album Artist should be the default node. Please oh great developers, help us out here

Teknojnky wrote:sounds like an ipod issue

Nope. It's an every media player that I'm aware of issue. They all pull the artist data from the 'artist' field and not the 'album artist' field. If you know one that doesn't, I'd be glad to hear it. Ive used the Sansa 200 series, Zune, Ipod and Creative Zen players...

I agree. It's very frustrating with my ipod for example. I want to hear all songs from an artist, but can't select 'play all' if the artist has other people on some songs...

This may already be possible, but I would love to have a node for viewing album artist rather than by 'artist'.

Thanks!

Which still doesn't address the issue of characters not being picked up by the search...

Eyal wrote:It's just a general rule of conduct concerning data that can be associated with files.

So, what's the best way to separate multiple artists?

Given this example:

Hollywood Divorce - Outkast (Feat. Lil' Wayne and Snoop Dogg)

Eyal wrote:That's not a good idea to use special characters in the fields, since if you use auto-organize it will strip them.

I'm not sure why you say that... I use auto organize and I've never had characters removed from the tag - the file name yes, but it replaces it with a "-".

I haven't been using MM3 much so this issue may have been fixed already but... When I am going through my library trying to clean up artist information e.g. Artist 1 (feat. Artist 2) or Artist 1; Artist 2 You get the idea. I am tagging all of my artist fields as Artist 1/Artist 2 etc. When I use the ...