Philip Meyer;291416 Wrote: > Out of curiosity, what version of iTunes do you use? I have v7.6.2.9 > which allows the user to show "Artist", "Album Artist" and/or "Sort > Album Artist". I can't see an "Album by Artist" column like yours.Album by > Artist is a sort view. Click on the Album column header and it'll swap between Album, Album by Artist & Album By Fear as you click.
> Album Artist is the column title that you can see in the grid, and it > groups songs in the list by that when in "album view" display mode, but > that's about all that iTunes will do with it. eg. if you set an album > artist, it won't appear in the artist filter. Only the content of > artists appears in the list, and you get all artists even if they only > appear on one song in a compilation. > > So in iTunes if you have an album with songs by different artists, and > set it as not a compilation album and set an "album artist" (really > this is band), then that band will not appear in the list of > artists.Regretably, Album Artist is barely used in the UI. It's completely ignored in the retro Quick View, too. The Cover Flow view, however, depends and uses it. -- grommet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ grommet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5959 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46093 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
