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<blockquote data-quote="nzsp" data-source="post: 77215" data-attributes="member: 20584">Just a small suggestion to make MP even better...Below is a question I put to SteveV, and his reply, about fields in the music database. His reply is that some further development of the share scanning code is required to take advantage of the new tag reader. I thought I would post this here to see if anyone else feels this is needed, and in case one of the devs would like to take this up while SteveV is busy on the music engine.Cheers&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; SteveQUOTEHi Steve,I posted this on the forums but didn't get any replies. I hope you don't mind me coming to you directly with a question like this. I you have any ideas I would appreciate it. I know you're busy with the new music engine which sounds great, so no rush...I have a question about how music tag fields are handled, namely the use of &quot;artist&quot; versus &quot;album artist&quot;. This is, I'm afraid, another &quot;I used to this in Meedio... can I do it in MP?&quot; question.I have a number of compiliation albums. The tracks are all tagged as having &quot;Various artists&quot; as the &quot;album-artist&quot; field, and e.g. &quot;Madonna&quot;, &quot;AC/DC&quot; etc. as the artist field for each track.Currently in the MP configuration I cannot find a way to differentiate between the two. The Meedio confugration used to refer to the &quot;artist&quot; field as &quot;artist&quot; and the &quot;album artist&quot; field as &quot;Band&quot;. This allowed sorting by band and artist etc. It also meant that a track within a compilation album would show the correct individual artist as the track artist.In MP it seems to read the &quot;album-artist&quot; tag field as the MP artist. So every track within a compliation album comes up as having &quot;Various artists&quot; as the artist.I tried re-scanning my music files with and without the &quot;treat files in the same folder as an album &quot; box checked, and that made no difference.Is there a way to fix this currently in MP? Is the MP music database limited to a single artist field?I couldn't tell if the new tag reader will help in this regard or not.Many thanks,Steve&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; REPLYHi Steve,The current database doesn't support the notion of different &quot;Album Artist&quot; and &quot;Artist&quot;. This is in part, because the existing tag reader does look for the &quot;Album Artist&quot; field. The new tag reader should fix this but we'll still need to make some database changes and do a fair amount of redesign to the shares scanning code.So, currently, it's not possible to get around this problem. Unfortunately, I have little free time ATM and likely won't get to this for a while. It is possible however, that an other dev might take on this task.Regards,Steve</blockquote>

[QUOTE="nzsp, post: 77215, member: 20584"] Just a small suggestion to make MP even better... Below is a question I put to SteveV, and his reply, about fields in the music database. His reply is that some further development of the share scanning code is required to take advantage of the new tag reader. I thought I would post this here to see if anyone else feels this is needed, and in case one of the devs would like to take this up while SteveV is busy on the music engine. Cheers Steve QUOTE Hi Steve, I posted this on the forums but didn't get any replies. I hope you don't mind me coming to you directly with a question like this. I you have any ideas I would appreciate it. I know you're busy with the new music engine which sounds great, so no rush... I have a question about how music tag fields are handled, namely the use of "artist" versus "album artist". This is, I'm afraid, another "I used to this in Meedio... can I do it in MP?" question. I have a number of compiliation albums. The tracks are all tagged as having "Various artists" as the "album-artist" field, and e.g. "Madonna", "AC/DC" etc. as the artist field for each track. Currently in the MP configuration I cannot find a way to differentiate between the two. The Meedio confugration used to refer to the "artist" field as "artist" and the "album artist" field as "Band". This allowed sorting by band and artist etc. It also meant that a track within a compilation album would show the correct individual artist as the track artist. In MP it seems to read the "album-artist" tag field as the MP artist. So every track within a compliation album comes up as having "Various artists" as the artist. I tried re-scanning my music files with and without the "treat files in the same folder as an album " box checked, and that made no difference. Is there a way to fix this currently in MP? Is the MP music database limited to a single artist field? I couldn't tell if the new tag reader will help in this regard or not. Many thanks, Steve REPLY Hi Steve, The current database doesn't support the notion of different "Album Artist" and "Artist". This is in part, because the existing tag reader does look for the "Album Artist" field. The new tag reader should fix this but we'll still need to make some database changes and do a fair amount of redesign to the shares scanning code. So, currently, it's not possible to get around this problem. Unfortunately, I have little free time ATM and likely won't get to this for a while. It is possible however, that an other dev might take on this task. Regards, Steve [/QUOTE]

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