OK, so I understand, I think, how album and album artists fields work together with compilations.
Could these fields be used to help group artists with many variations? For instance, I have a lot of Duke Ellington records that I would like to group under "Duke Ellington" but also, if possible, retain the specific names like "Duke Ellington's Spacemen" "Duke Ellington and His Orchestra" etc... I could use the same functionality, if it exists, to get "Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges" grouped together...
Does that make sense? How do others handle this?
I'm using MM 2.5 latest gold
Album and Album Artist for variations?
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Itlan
Album and Album Artist for variations?
Album Artist should be the artist of the album or compilation. For soundtracks and such, it should be Various Artists or maybe the movie name. For regular albums, it should be the artist's name.
The artist tag should be who sung the song. If it was a Duet, you could put both artists names.
For what you want with groups of songs, you may want to create playlists.
The artist tag should be who sung the song. If it was a Duet, you could put both artists names.
For what you want with groups of songs, you may want to create playlists.
I think what you want could work, although it may not technically be correct.
I can see what you are trying to do, and that might be a nice way of doing things (e.g. to have Miles Davis as your album artist) and use the artist field to fill in the specifics.
The problem may come if you have specific tracks with a guest artist, etc. that you would have trouble with because you essentially used two Album Artists.
For me, I generally don't worry about the specifics and I just label everything by the band leader. Your idea is nice, but I haven't really seen much of a need to do more. I don't like having to worry about which specific artist I want for an album. If it is XXXX, XXXX and his band, XXXX quartet, XXXX trio, etc. I just want to look for XXXX. Your method makes that possible, but then I'd probably never actually use the extra info since the Artist XXXX is so easy.
I do look forward to having multi-artist support for tracks in MM3. The thing that bothers me right now is in the case of your second example: "Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges". In my current scheme, I group those by who I would want to find it under. So, in my library that would be Album Artist = Duke Ellington. The Artist is the same right now, but with MM3, I would use Duke Ellington; Johnny Hodges. Then this would show up under a node for each artist, so that I could search for either one and find the album. This will be nice for duets.
Erik
I can see what you are trying to do, and that might be a nice way of doing things (e.g. to have Miles Davis as your album artist) and use the artist field to fill in the specifics.
The problem may come if you have specific tracks with a guest artist, etc. that you would have trouble with because you essentially used two Album Artists.
For me, I generally don't worry about the specifics and I just label everything by the band leader. Your idea is nice, but I haven't really seen much of a need to do more. I don't like having to worry about which specific artist I want for an album. If it is XXXX, XXXX and his band, XXXX quartet, XXXX trio, etc. I just want to look for XXXX. Your method makes that possible, but then I'd probably never actually use the extra info since the Artist XXXX is so easy.
I do look forward to having multi-artist support for tracks in MM3. The thing that bothers me right now is in the case of your second example: "Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges". In my current scheme, I group those by who I would want to find it under. So, in my library that would be Album Artist = Duke Ellington. The Artist is the same right now, but with MM3, I would use Duke Ellington; Johnny Hodges. Then this would show up under a node for each artist, so that I could search for either one and find the album. This will be nice for duets.
Erik
It would just be nice to expand one tree node and see all of my "miles davis" albums whether solo, quartet, quintet, etc...