TwonkyVision 4.4 and WMP11 "Album Artist"
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:58 am
Hi All,
I have a rather annoying problem when using TwonkyVision 4.4 serving WMP11 running on Vista Home Premium Edition. My music collection was originally created using WMP10 and WMP11. TwonkyVision 4.4 seems to be mapping "Contributing Artist" to "Album Artist". The result is that under WMP11 any compilation album, with multiple "Contributing Artist"s are split up.
For example all 16 tracks in the Album "Trance Nation Anthems Disc 1" have the same value:
Album Artist = "Various Artist"
but have completely different "Contributing Artist" values. If I read the track mp3 files directly into WMP11 they are all allocated to the same Album. If I stream using TwonkyVision 4.4 the Album is split into 16 different entries, with the "Contributing Artist" being listed as "Album Artist"! As most my collection is made up of compilation CDs, this is very annoying! I've tried editing the Music Tree, but to no avail. It seems that WMP11 uses the Album concatenated with Album Artist to make up unique Album entries.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
AMG
I have a rather annoying problem when using TwonkyVision 4.4 serving WMP11 running on Vista Home Premium Edition. My music collection was originally created using WMP10 and WMP11. TwonkyVision 4.4 seems to be mapping "Contributing Artist" to "Album Artist". The result is that under WMP11 any compilation album, with multiple "Contributing Artist"s are split up.
For example all 16 tracks in the Album "Trance Nation Anthems Disc 1" have the same value:
Album Artist = "Various Artist"
but have completely different "Contributing Artist" values. If I read the track mp3 files directly into WMP11 they are all allocated to the same Album. If I stream using TwonkyVision 4.4 the Album is split into 16 different entries, with the "Contributing Artist" being listed as "Album Artist"! As most my collection is made up of compilation CDs, this is very annoying! I've tried editing the Music Tree, but to no avail. It seems that WMP11 uses the Album concatenated with Album Artist to make up unique Album entries.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
AMG