The information displayed at the bottom of WMP 10 about the song being
played does not always display correctly. An example would be:
Playing: 64 K/bits second, Album: 1961, Song: Runaway, and Artist: Various
Artist. The artist should read Del Shannon. In the library master the
artist displays correctly and Various Artist shows up under Album Artist.

If the Album Artist is blank or the Album Artist and the Artist are the
same, the Artist will display correctly for the song being played.

How do I get the correct artist to show up when Artist is displayed.

Thanks for your time,

It appears that WMP is only capable of displaying one artist at a time and
uses the last artist name found. This causes weird issues like only seeing
one artist listed when you have multiple artists (in a semicolon tokenized
list) or seeing the Album Artist instead of the "Artist".

Basically WMP reads the Album Artist field after Artist, so if anything is
in the Album Artist field, it overrides the Artist field for display purposes.

P.S. I really hope that WMP 11 and the Vista shell fix these issues with
tokenized lists. (Is anyone listening?)

"Slickpilot" wrote:
> The information displayed at the bottom of WMP 10 about the song being
> played does not always display correctly. An example would be:
> Playing: 64 K/bits second, Album: 1961, Song: Runaway, and Artist: Various
> Artist. The artist should read Del Shannon. In the library master the
> artist displays correctly and Various Artist shows up under Album Artist.
>
> If the Album Artist is blank or the Album Artist and the Artist are the
> same, the Artist will display correctly for the song being played.

?

The "scroll display" Slick is asking about displays the Album Artist. That
is contextually not a multiple value field, and isn't 'weird' - it's by
design. The scroll display is a simple display not meant to scroll through
multiple values in the field - for that information, you would use the Media
Library....

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"Dan Corban" <DanCorban@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E7161CDF-9871-445B-B49D-C666C2AFD3C1@microsoft.com...
> It appears that WMP is only capable of displaying one artist at a time and
> uses the last artist name found. This causes weird issues like only seeing
> one artist listed when you have multiple artists (in a semicolon tokenized
> list) or seeing the Album Artist instead of the "Artist".
>
> Basically WMP reads the Album Artist field after Artist, so if anything is
> in the Album Artist field, it overrides the Artist field for display
> purposes.
>
> P.S. I really hope that WMP 11 and the Vista shell fix these issues with
> tokenized lists. (Is anyone listening?)
>
> "Slickpilot" wrote:
>> The information displayed at the bottom of WMP 10 about the song being
>> played does not always display correctly. An example would be:
>> Playing: 64 K/bits second, Album: 1961, Song: Runaway, and Artist:
>> Various
>> Artist. The artist should read Del Shannon. In the library master the
>> artist displays correctly and Various Artist shows up under Album Artist.
>>
>> If the Album Artist is blank or the Album Artist and the Artist are the
>> same, the Artist will display correctly for the song being played.

zachd,

Is there any way to get the schroll to display the Artist as opposed to the
Album Artist short of deleting all data in the Album Artist field or moving
the artist to the Album Artist field?

Thanks again,

"zachd [ms]" wrote:

>
> ?
>
> The "scroll display" Slick is asking about displays the Album Artist. That
> is contextually not a multiple value field, and isn't 'weird' - it's by
> design. The scroll display is a simple display not meant to scroll through
> multiple values in the field - for that information, you would use the Media
> Library....
>
> --
> (speaking for myself and doing this in my free time)
> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> --
>
> "Dan Corban" <DanCorban@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E7161CDF-9871-445B-B49D-C666C2AFD3C1@microsoft.com...
> > It appears that WMP is only capable of displaying one artist at a time and
> > uses the last artist name found. This causes weird issues like only seeing
> > one artist listed when you have multiple artists (in a semicolon tokenized
> > list) or seeing the Album Artist instead of the "Artist".
> >
> > Basically WMP reads the Album Artist field after Artist, so if anything is
> > in the Album Artist field, it overrides the Artist field for display
> > purposes.
> >
> > P.S. I really hope that WMP 11 and the Vista shell fix these issues with
> > tokenized lists. (Is anyone listening?)
> >
> > "Slickpilot" wrote:
> >> The information displayed at the bottom of WMP 10 about the song being
> >> played does not always display correctly. An example would be:
> >> Playing: 64 K/bits second, Album: 1961, Song: Runaway, and Artist:
> >> Various
> >> Artist. The artist should read Del Shannon. In the library master the
> >> artist displays correctly and Various Artist shows up under Album Artist.
> >>
> >> If the Album Artist is blank or the Album Artist and the Artist are the
> >> same, the Artist will display correctly for the song being played.
>
>
>

As noted, nope. It's something Josh and I've bandied about. But there's
always bigger/more interesting fish to fry... =\

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See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
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"Slickpilot" <Slickpilot@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:74380F87-A167-45F8-BBA7-0CDC5942C4C0@microsoft.com...
> zachd,
>
> Is there any way to get the schroll to display the Artist as opposed to
> the
> Album Artist short of deleting all data in the Album Artist field or
> moving
> the artist to the Album Artist field?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> "zachd [ms]" wrote:
>
>>
>> ?
>>
>> The "scroll display" Slick is asking about displays the Album Artist.
>> That
>> is contextually not a multiple value field, and isn't 'weird' - it's by
>> design. The scroll display is a simple display not meant to scroll
>> through
>> multiple values in the field - for that information, you would use the
>> Media
>> Library....
>>
>> --
>> (speaking for myself and doing this in my free time)
>> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights.
>> --
>>
>> "Dan Corban" <DanCorban@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:E7161CDF-9871-445B-B49D-C666C2AFD3C1@microsoft.com...
>> > It appears that WMP is only capable of displaying one artist at a time
>> > and
>> > uses the last artist name found. This causes weird issues like only
>> > seeing
>> > one artist listed when you have multiple artists (in a semicolon
>> > tokenized
>> > list) or seeing the Album Artist instead of the "Artist".
>> >
>> > Basically WMP reads the Album Artist field after Artist, so if anything
>> > is
>> > in the Album Artist field, it overrides the Artist field for display
>> > purposes.
>> >
>> > P.S. I really hope that WMP 11 and the Vista shell fix these issues
>> > with
>> > tokenized lists. (Is anyone listening?)
>> >
>> > "Slickpilot" wrote:
>> >> The information displayed at the bottom of WMP 10 about the song
>> >> being
>> >> played does not always display correctly. An example would be:
>> >> Playing: 64 K/bits second, Album: 1961, Song: Runaway, and Artist:
>> >> Various
>> >> Artist. The artist should read Del Shannon. In the library master
>> >> the
>> >> artist displays correctly and Various Artist shows up under Album
>> >> Artist.
>> >>
>> >> If the Album Artist is blank or the Album Artist and the Artist are
>> >> the
>> >> same, the Artist will display correctly for the song being played.
>>
>>
>>