[mythtv-users] mythmusic and "various artists" albums

[myth at umich2.com]

Curtis Stanford wrote:

> I've been using and enjoying mythmusic for a while now and stumbled 
> upon a problem. I have lots of albums that have various artists on 
> them (i.e. soundtracks, christmas albums, etc.). I used to just set 
> the artist tag to 'Various' and put the artist name in the 'title' 
> tag. This struck me as lame so now I put the actual artist's name in 
> the artist tag. So, what I end up with is an album where every track 
> has a different artist tag.
>
> Now, when I view it in mythmusic, it displays correctly and puts each 
> song on the album under the appropriate artist's name. So, the other 
> day, I wanted to play a certain Christmas album, so I went to one of 
> the artists in the tree and clicked on the album name itself (instead 
> of going all the way to the track name). I figured this would play the 
> entire album. Unfortunately, it only played the one song by that 
> artist. I discovered I couldn't think of any way of playing that album 
> now without going into each artist in the tree and checking the album 
> or track there.
>
> So, even though I think this is the proper way to tag 'Various' type 
> albums, mythmusic is not cooperating with my choice. Does anyone else 
> do this or have any ideas? I think that clicking on the album, no 
> matter where in the tree you are, should play that album.
>
> Thanks
>
> Curtis
>
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Couple of options come to mind:
1. create a playlist for your various artists albums
2. change the listings so album comes in front of artist (probably not 
very user friendly)

One problem with your suggestion is that different artists may have the 
same album name, eg Greatest Hits.