MM 3.0 Alpha 8 - Artist View problem

aprzybylo · Post by **aprzybylo** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 10:50 pm

This was working fine in all previous builds. Now if you select to browse by artist you don't see + signs in front to expand albums. You have to double click to expand and see all albums. But also before when artist was selected all songs of this artist were shown. Now you can't see any song unless you select one album. This way you can never see a song that has album field not set.

nojac · Post by **nojac** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:22 pm

I still get a + in front of the artists who have albums where they are Album Artists. And all their tracks are shown when I select these artists.

But the artists which are only on Various Artist albums have empty nodes (together with all the Composer nodes, which are also empty....) So the Artist & AlbumArtist node is rather useless at the moment.

But the TrackBrowser is still OK

judas · Post by **judas** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:26 pm

@aprzybylo

try doing a clean install or changing the name of the MM DataBase...Alpha8 is known to have problems when updating DB from A7

swears · Post by **swears** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:19 am

nojac wrote:I still get a + in front of the artists who have albums where they are Album Artists. And all their tracks are shown when I select these artists.

But the artists which are only on Various Artist albums have empty nodes (together with all the Composer nodes, which are also empty....) So the Artist & AlbumArtist node is rather useless at the moment.

But the TrackBrowser is still OK

I totally Agree. The artist & Album Artist node is cluttered now. I have tons of composers I've never even heard of before which I honestly don't really care about. Also, When I click on the composers, nothing shows up. I've tried all the different views.

HiveKiller · Post by **HiveKiller** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:55 pm

Same, i have tons of extra stuff in the artist and album artist view that i have no easy way to fix. Just when i thought i was getting everything cleaned up now i have to start all over again.

.Someone. · Post by **.Someone.** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:10 pm

I'm getting the same. All of the composers are displayed under the Artist and Album Artist section. I hope this gets fixed ASAP. Until then, I'm going back to Alpha 7.

JrVtecAccord · Post by **JrVtecAccord** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 1:46 am

Guys/Gals, go to TOOLS then OPTIONS then LIBRARY then FILTERS AND VIEWS then click NONE then CONFIGURE.

You should have all the options to configure the tree just like a7. Well most will like to browse their artist via "album artist". Just mess around in there till you configure it to your liking.

Don't you just love MM, FULLY configurable.

nojac · Post by **nojac** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 2:48 am

JrVtecAccord wrote:Guys/Gals, go to TOOLS then OPTIONS then LIBRARY then FILTERS AND VIEWS then click NONE then CONFIGURE.

OK. If you have Gold.... If not, A7 is probably a better choice

EDIT: I was wrong. After I rescanned the library and deleted the TweakMonkey script it is all working. Now the Artists & AlbumArtists node is gone!

And there is no + in front of artists with album subnodes until I click on them...

PetrCBR · Post by **PetrCBR** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:44 am

Default View settings will be available for all users (not only for gold).

JrVtecAccord · Post by **JrVtecAccord** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 12:20 pm

nojac wrote:
JrVtecAccord wrote:Guys/Gals, go to TOOLS then OPTIONS then LIBRARY then FILTERS AND VIEWS then click NONE then CONFIGURE.
OK. If you have Gold.... If not, A7 is probably a better choice

Gold is so you can create YOUR OWN filters.

frodon · Post by **frodon** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 12:22 pm

HiveKiller wrote:Same, i have tons of extra stuff in the artist and album artist view that i have no easy way to fix. Just when i thought i was getting everything cleaned up now i have to start all over again.

I managed to get rid of the composers by deleting the old datebase and making a new install.

Unfortunately the database started to crash after that. Looks like alpha 7 is a bit more stable - at least on my computer...

.Someone. · Post by **.Someone.** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:13 pm

Still doesn't make sense that it would show all of the composers in the Artist & Album Artist field by default. Who would want that? There's a composer field for the composers.

Mizery_Made · Post by **Mizery_Made** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:22 pm

.Someone. wrote:Still doesn't make sense that it would show all of the composers in the Artist & Album Artist field by default.

Because it's a bug and not by design...

PetrCBR · Post by **PetrCBR** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:46 am

.Someone. wrote:Still doesn't make sense that it would show all of the composers in the Artist & Album Artist field by default. Who would want that? There's a composer field for the composers.

Please, send me your DB (petr att mediamonkey dott com).