0009425: Option to infer 'Album Artist' field

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0009425	MMW v4	Properties/Auto-Tools	public	2012-06-12 13:42	2012-06-12 13:42

Reporter	rusty	Assigned To
Priority	urgent	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	always
Status	new	Resolution	open
Product Version	4.1
Target Version	4.1

Summary	0009425: Option to infer 'Album Artist' field
Description	Due to issues re. the automatic filling of the 'Album Artist' field, that functionality was modified for MM 4.0.5 so that it became semi automatic (see 0008599 ). The plan was to give users an option in the future to re-automate this functionality, as follows: Add the following option to: Options > Library, just above 'scan file directories for artwork': [x] Automatically guess Album Artist from Artist field It would cause: 1) During initial scanning: any scanned track that _has_ Artist and Album fields set and does _not_have_ Album Artist would get Artist assigned to Album Artist 2) During editing of tracks, editing of the Artist field would automatically also edit the Album Artist field, in cases where all of the tracks on the album i) have equivalent Artist/Album Artists ii) are within the same directory
Additional Information	Originally recorded at: http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=8599#c29686
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