Organize by 'Album Artist'?

Interstellar · Jul 16, 2007

If I take a compilation of various artists, change the 'Artist' name to Various and then put the atrists real name in 'Album Artist', will that keep the compilation together in the library? But still maintain the artists integrity for the music they wrote?

ste6168 · Jul 17, 2007

Interstellar said:
If I take a compilation of various artists, change the 'Artist' name to Various and then put the atrists real name in 'Album Artist', will that keep the compilation together in the library? But still maintain the artists integrity for the music they wrote?

Honestly I dont know if this has anything to do with what you are talking about, but I was trying to get a bunch of "promotional country CD's" that I got from local radio stations (through my internship for school) to be groupd as a compilation, like they were the same artist, without being listed as the same artist ( if that makes sense).... I dunno, if this isnt what your saying, then EVERYONE REGARD THIS

Interstellar · Jul 17, 2007

No, that's it's exactly what I'm talking about.
What did you do?

shmendall · Jul 18, 2007

I'd give them the artist name :

*compilation name*-*real artist name*

you could then widen the bars so you can see their names!

or you could have their artist names in the song title section? then the album name in their artist name section?

Ryvyan · Jul 18, 2007

That "Album Artist" thingum only came out after I had organised a few thousands of my songs, including compilations. Or maybe I'm just slow in downloading updates from iTunes back then. :X

I usually sort them by albums, the artistes' names I put in song title before the title of the song. :X

ste6168 · Jul 18, 2007

Interstellar said:
No, that's it's exactly what I'm talking about.
What did you do?

I havent figured it out yet... Im gonna mess around with it now.

* on a side note, I have the compilations named "Promotional country CD March" "Promotional country CD April" etc and would like them to also be arranged in order of the month, wonder if thats possible...

Interstellar · Jul 18, 2007

Sample of what I tried:

Album - Best of Motown Disc 1
Song - Papa Was A Rolling Stone
Artist - Various Artist
Album Artist - The Temptations

Still seperates each artist with their song, not by Various Artist