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<blockquote data-quote="kev160967" data-source="post: 89526" data-attributes="member: 26620">Hi folks,Just installed MP last night, and very happy so far. I've previously used myHTPC and Meedio, then started using MCE2K5 on my latest box. I always liked the configrability of meedio, but also like the better stability of MCE. Anyway, enough of the past. There are a handful of things that I found irritating in MCE which I hoped I'd be able to overcome in MP. I'll post each one in a seperate thread to keep things tidy.First off:I've got a fairly large music collection (about 30-40 gig of MP3s), and navigating by artist can be quite painful, as I also have a lot of compilation albums, so often artists may only have a handful of songs, or even just one. Within windows media player I was able to handle this quite nicely by using the Album Artist tag. This means that each track on a compilation album has the appropriate name in the artist tag, and &quot;Various Artists&quot; in the album artist tags. As a result, my typical search mode works very well - I tend to look for a specific album, going by the artist name for a specific band, or looking under compilations if it's in there.Question is, is there any way to support this under MP? The tag doesn't appear to be handled, as far as I can tell. If it were I'd be able to set up a list view of album artists, with the actual albums displayed at the next level.Any thoughts?Kev</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kev160967, post: 89526, member: 26620"] Hi folks, Just installed MP last night, and very happy so far. I've previously used myHTPC and Meedio, then started using MCE2K5 on my latest box. I always liked the configrability of meedio, but also like the better stability of MCE. Anyway, enough of the past. There are a handful of things that I found irritating in MCE which I hoped I'd be able to overcome in MP. I'll post each one in a seperate thread to keep things tidy. First off: I've got a fairly large music collection (about 30-40 gig of MP3s), and navigating by artist can be quite painful, as I also have a lot of compilation albums, so often artists may only have a handful of songs, or even just one. Within windows media player I was able to handle this quite nicely by using the Album Artist tag. This means that each track on a compilation album has the appropriate name in the artist tag, and "Various Artists" in the album artist tags. As a result, my typical search mode works very well - I tend to look for a specific album, going by the artist name for a specific band, or looking under compilations if it's in there. Question is, is there any way to support this under MP? The tag doesn't appear to be handled, as far as I can tell. If it were I'd be able to set up a list view of album artists, with the actual albums displayed at the next level. Any thoughts? Kev [/QUOTE]

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