Re: Multiple Artist Indexing Probs with WMP10

From: fabiospark (fabiospark_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/03/05 

Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:45:06 -0800

Please check this:

I put three different names in Contributing artist field separated by a
semicolon (;) "First name; Second name; Third name"
Ok, now I can see three nodes in the Contributing artist tree on the left
pane. Clever, I say.
If I create an autoplaylist with just one name - whichever - I can find
those tracks.
Now I want to create a playlist to find all the tracks with the first two
names I put in the field so I do:

"Field Contributing artist contains: "First name"
"Field Contributing artist contains: "Second name"

How many tracks I will find? No one!

Then I try putting "First name/ Second name/ third name" instead of using (;).
Now I can see just the node "First name/ Second name/ Third name" in the
tree but when I create the autoplaylist like the one above I can find the
tracks.

Does anybody know a way to save the clever behaviour of the tree using (;)
but without having to loose the autoplaylist retrieving feature?

Thanks in advance.

P.S.

Does any field work in the same way? I mean, with (;)?

Thanks again.

"Mike Williams [MVP]" wrote:

> Ed Isenberg wrote:
> > I still feel stupid, because I do not see any place to ENTER "Contributing
> > Artist". It is not one of the library fields, and isn't in the Advanced Tag
> > Editor. Oddly enough there is a tree for it, but I can't figure out where WMP
> > gets the information that a particular song has such-and-such a Contributing
> > Artist. I can create a new Auto Playlist based on Contributing Artist, but
> > that doesn't tell me where to enter the iinfo. Clicking on "My Playlists"
> > "New" does nothing.
>
> If you check my table in the article I referenced, you get a guide as to
> where to go. WMP has completely stuffed up any attempt at consistent
> terminology, so "Contributing Artist" is labelled differently in nearly
> every part of the UI.
>
> > I do gather that trying to enter multiple artists under the Artist name is
> > now useless as there are unpredictable results.
>
> Depends what you mean by "Artist" (see above).
>
> > As someone who has been a Product Manager for many software products from
> > very major companies, I cannot believe that Microsoft released such garbage.
>
> Heck I worked on about 8 Microsoft products and consider it a total
> embarrassment. There are a number of areas which contravene Microsoft's
> own long-published guidelines.
>

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