[iTunes] Itunes 7

[Jim MacCormaic]

On 18 Sep 2006, at 07:30 pm, Ron Owens wrote:

> Not sure, but it is helpful.  For example, you can designate the Oh  
> Brother
> Where Art Thou soundtrack Album Artist as Various Artists while  
> keeping
> individual artists for each track.  When you use the new Album Art  
> View it
> will show only one CD with Various Artists instead of several CDs with
> different artists.
>
>> From: James Paul Manley <jesus.is.healing.my.cancer at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: "A place to discuss iTunes."  
>> <itunes at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:39:55 -0600
>> To: iTunes Mailing List <itunes at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Subject: [iTunes] Itunes 7
>>
>> When you get info on a song it has fields for artist & Album artist.
>> What is the difference?

Designating an album as a compilation will result in 'Various  
Artists' displaying in Cover Flow view, whereas there may be cases  
where most tracks on an album are by a particular artists but some  
tracks involve the participation of someone else also. You can  
specify the difference on a per-track basis ('with Such-and-such'',  
for instance) but avoid Cover Flow displaying two instances of the  
album cover by filling in the principal artist's name as Album Artist.

<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304389> goes in to  
further detail.

Jim MacCormaic
Dublin, Ireland