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General => MusicBee Wishlist => Topic started by: psycho21r on April 27, 2011, 09:48:30 PM

Title: Multiple artists with same name
Post by: psycho21r on April 27, 2011, 09:48:30 PM

I love the fact that I can organize multiple albums with the same name, from the same artist, just by using the year. For example, Rancid have an album called Rancid released in '93 and one in '00, and they are different.

But my wish is to be able to have more artists with different names, and there are a lot out there like: Skid Row, Eagles, Iris, Coma, etc. I don't like listening to just one of them.

Cheers :-)

Title: Re: Multiple artists with same name
Post by: Steven on April 27, 2011, 10:09:50 PM

i dont understand exactly what you are asking for.
surely if 2 artists share the same name, the albums will still be split because the album names will be different

Title: Re: Multiple artists with same name
Post by: psycho21r on April 28, 2011, 05:40:58 AM

But the albums albums also split if have different release years.

Look:  http://www.last.fm/music/Iris?ac=iris
There are at least 15 different artists named Iris:
1) An American synthpop band formed in 1993.
2) A Romanian hard rock group formed in 1977.
3) A chilean experimental hip-hop band.
4) An instrumental band featuring Marillion members Ian Mosley and Pete Trewavas.
5) A Spanish singer from Barcelona.
6) A music group specialized on Touhou and it’s music.
7) An Australian pop-rock band.
8) A German progressive band.
9) A Portuguese hard rock band.
10) A British band from Derby.
11) A Hungarian metal band.

for me it looks like this:
(http://www.image-share.com/upload/626/21m.png) (http://www.image-share.com/ipng-626-21.html)
Top right and bottom left are from the American band and the others from the Romanian one, I would like to separe them somehow.

Title: Re: Multiple artists with same name
Post by: Steven on April 28, 2011, 07:56:38 AM

it should already be showing the album separately as shown in your picture
you could define a custom field (Preferences/Tags(1)) eg. country, which can edited with the tag editor and display that (right click on the main panel header bar/ Configure Layout and choose custom field as a display field)

Title: Re: Multiple artists with same name
Post by: daak_grey on April 28, 2011, 08:42:08 AM

I assume that the problem here is that musicbee sees all the albums as having been made by the same artist. If you edit the albums and then go to tags(2) there is a "sort album artist" tag if you give each a name in that field (eg Iris German / Iris Romanian) then define a custom search such as "album artist / sort album artist / year / album" hopefully they will be separated.