Compilation Albums

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Compilation Albums

I find it absolutely amazing that Front Row doesn't support compilation albums when iTunes does. Am I missing something ? I would think this would be "day one" functionality.

New to Macs. Ones of the migrators. Impressed in other areas - except the one area that made me switch, which was Front Row.

Posted on Apr 8, 2006 10:44 PM

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Apr 8, 2006 10:50 PM in response to chopdog

By compilation albums do you mean the "Folders" feature in iTunes for grouping playlists?

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chopdog Author

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Apr 9, 2006 1:59 AM in response to Kevin Arnold

No - I mean compilation albums ! as in multiple artists listed as "Compilations" not listed as "Artists"

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Apr 9, 2006 8:28 AM in response to chopdog

Ah, yes. There is no current support for viewing as compilations.

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Apr 12, 2006 11:15 AM in response to chopdog

I can only agree, why apple why. Front Row's music module is almost useless at the moment for me. I need the compilation feature. I would also like a quick way to go to a letter for example 'r' if I want to play Ramones. It takes forever to scoll down to r in my library.

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chopdog Author

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Apr 13, 2006 9:00 AM in response to Daniel Karlsson

So - how do you actually get an totally obvious feature instated into a product ? Does calling tech support help ? How do calls get logged or requests get registered ?

I can only think that there is an ultimate plan to
a) put a configuration icon in System Prefs to allow customisation
b) a chargable Front Row Premium product with the functionality everyone REALLY needs
c) no-one is listening
d) Apple would like to remove the concept of compilation albums from peoples brains for some higher marketing reason!

Vote now.

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Apr 15, 2006 4:44 AM in response to chopdog

Obviously this is a similar silly bug like the one with multiple disc sets:

http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2081520

Front Row just ignores the disc numbers of albums consisting of multiple discs and displays and plays the songs of such an album in a wrong order.

The only workaround, until Apple fixes these bugs: Create playlists in iTunes for all compilation albums and for all multiple disc albums ...

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Stash

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May 1, 2006 5:21 PM in response to plandmann

Yeah totally agree.
I have had to create playlists for certain bands i like so i can easily navigate in FrontRow.

The problem is with the Compilation feature not working, it makes it even harder to navigate through the artist list as there is an extra 2000 artists with only one or 2 songs attached.

Apple please address this issue in a fix soon.

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iLars

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May 14, 2006 6:58 PM in response to chopdog

yes yes yes. please fix this ASAP, this is a #1 issue, browsing artists is unusable right now.

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chopdog Author

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Jul 10, 2006 4:36 AM in response to iLars

Media Central from Equinux software has just been upgraded and includes this feature. You have to pay - but it seems to do everything FrontRow doesn't (but should).

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Jul 18, 2007 3:54 PM in response to chopdog

have these issues been addressed yet??

the compilations thing certainly hasnt yet..

MacBook 2ghz Mac OS X (10.4.7) Logic 7.2.2 / Reaktor 5 / Battery 3

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iLars

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Oct 27, 2007 5:01 AM in response to chopdog

Hard to believe, but this still hasn't been fixed, not even in the complete redesign of Front Row in Leopard. Guys! FIX THIS! Front Row is completely UNUSABLE for all users with compilations in their music library!
I have been waiting for one and a half years now to be able to use Front Row ... installed Leopard today ... hoped for the best ... but again, disappointed.

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Oct 29, 2007 1:49 PM in response to chopdog

i totally agree. this needs fixing asap.

this thread should be bumped by everyone that agrees.

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Oct 29, 2007 7:04 PM in response to chopdog

YES! I was almost completely sure Apple would've added compilations to front roe, but disappointingly they didn't : (

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frysteen

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Oct 29, 2007 7:57 PM in response to chopdog

Why not just go in through ALBUMS, select the album that is a compilation, and play it?

It is what I do.

Although, I do admit that it still would be nice for them to have their own grouping especially as I would use if FAR more often than "Genre".

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Oct 30, 2007 10:07 AM in response to chopdog

Quote>>Why not just go in through ALBUMS, select the album that is a compilation, and play it?

thats not the issue for me. if i add 3 dance music compilations, with 20 tracks on each, to my library i will then have 60 faceless artists in my artists list. i dont want them there.

add another 2 compilations and that would be around 100 artists that i have never heard of in the list.

my library is 90 gig at present and contains 154 artists in the browser list. the front row artist list in the above example would be 254 artists.

I don't want artists from compilations included in the artist list in front row. end of.

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