by chrisdukes » Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:36 am
Thanks for the detailed explanations. This will definitely help people looking for an explanation and solution.
For me though, it's a big pain. I only use the Album Artist field for my favorite artists; sometimes they're DJs with a lot of mixes, other times they're a single artist with multiple names (example: Norman Cook is the Album Artist for Fatboy Slim, Freak Power, and the Housemartins) or the Album Artist will be a group with members that have their own records (Example: 4Hero for Marc Claire or Dennis McFarlane records). For me, an empty Album Artist field means it's NOT a favorite artist, so it gets saved to a separate folder.
I can accomplish the same goal using Various Artists instead of a blank field, but I'll have to rewrite all of my masks and edit a bunch of my Magic Nodes. I've used this program for almost a decade, I can't believe I'm just noticing this now.
- There's no way to turn off the setting in MM4?
- Is there a way to set MM4 to automatically fill the Album Artist with "Various Artists" instead of just copying the track's artist?
Thanks for the detailed explanations. This will definitely help people looking for an explanation and solution.
For me though, it's a big pain. I only use the Album Artist field for my favorite artists; sometimes they're DJs with a lot of mixes, other times they're a single artist with multiple names (example: Norman Cook is the Album Artist for Fatboy Slim, Freak Power, and the Housemartins) or the Album Artist will be a group with members that have their own records (Example: 4Hero for Marc Claire or Dennis McFarlane records). For me, an empty Album Artist field means it's NOT a favorite artist, so it gets saved to a separate folder.
I can accomplish the same goal using Various Artists instead of a blank field, but I'll have to rewrite all of my masks and edit a bunch of my Magic Nodes. I've used this program for almost a decade, I can't believe I'm just noticing this now.
[list]There's no way to turn off the setting in MM4?[/list]
[list]Is there a way to set MM4 to automatically fill the Album Artist with "Various Artists" instead of just copying the track's artist?[/list]