[OSX-Users] Re: iTunes artist listing

[Daniel Alexander Smith]

Yes, there's an option in the prefs that says "group compilations when  
browsing", uncheck it.

Party shuffle was renamed to something DJ, and isn't associated with  
genius (yet).

Dan

On 4 Jan 2010, at 18:46, Philip Boulain <prb at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> A "while" ago I made the mistake of letting my Mac update to iTunes  
> 8.2.1, because I sometimes become susceptable to the delusion that  
> software improves over time.
>
> One effect of this which has been annoying me is that the "Artist"  
> column in the playlist filters no longer lists artists which appear  
> only in compilations. I don't want to unset those tracks as being  
> part of a compilation as, frankly, they /are/, and I have reason to  
> care about the on-disk layout changes that that flag affects (it  
> puts all the tracks in a compilation CD in the same folder, which is  
> what I want).
>
> Anyone know if there's a checkbox buried somewhere that controls  
> this behaviour so that I don't have to keep resorting to the search  
> box to filter by the The Troggs, or if iTunes 9 (which Software  
> Update won't shut up about) unbreaks this without breaking anything  
> else?
>
> Phil
> (I seem to have lost Party Shuffle at some point too, but I seem to  
> remember people saying that got swallowed up by the "Genius" online  
> Amazon-recommender-like thing.)
>
> -- 
> | Philip Boulain   PhD student | ,-.    | The 'Net is a waste of  
> time, |
> | IAM, ECS, Uni of Southampton |   /    | and  that's  exactly   
> what's |
> | http://zepler.net/~lionsphil | -' `-' | right about it.  --W.  
> Gibson |