Compilation album artist field - show "Various Artists" instead of an artist name?

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Re: Compilation album artist field - show "Various Artists" instead of an artist name?

by Lowlander » Mon Jul 17, 2023 12:17 pm

In place of Artist, no.

However Albums should show the Album Artist value, not the Artist value.

Re: Compilation album artist field - show "Various Artists" instead of an artist name?

by groaninjock » Mon Jul 17, 2023 12:10 pm

"Album artist" is set as Various Artists, but "Artist" is the song artist. So there's no way for mma to show the former rather than the latter?

Re: Compilation album artist field - show "Various Artists" instead of an artist name?

by Lowlander » Mon Jul 17, 2023 11:00 am

You may need put the spaces in the right place in the URL (we'll fix it after).

1. Is Album Artist set to Various Artists?

2. MMA can't show Album Artist value as Artist value.

Compilation album artist field - show "Various Artists" instead of an artist name?

by groaninjock » Sun Jul 16, 2023 11:09 am

I've only just started with MediaMonkey, and I'm loving it so far.

Is there a way for compilations in the album view to show "Various Artists" instead of a random artist from that compilation?

In the screenshot attached, I'd like the various Acoustic compilations to show "Various Artists" in the artist field, rather than Paul Weller/The Bees/Moloko etc.

They're all tagged as compilations in the metadata, with "Album artist" set to "Various Artists"

Edit: I can't upload the screenshot to the post, even with a space in it.

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