An Album in WMP are songs with the same values for
- album title
- album artist
- genre
- release year

Running WMP11 11.0.6001.7000 it looks like an album is:
- album title
- album artist

Different values for release year and genre no longer forces a split.
Can anybody confirm this is new behaviour
Is this documented somewhere?

Re: Definition of an Album by zachd

zachd
Tue Jun 17 00:45:12 PDT 2008


I don't believe the library team ever officially announced their design
specs, no.

I would suspect that people requested that those not split any more, since
compilation albums/soundtracks would break. Wasn't that a beta-only
separation point?

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"Vincent" <Vincent@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:15D2975B-1002-4ABC-B777-67914229BE35@microsoft.com...
> An Album in WMP are songs with the same values for
> - album title
> - album artist
> - genre
> - release year
>
> Running WMP11 11.0.6001.7000 it looks like an album is:
> - album title
> - album artist
>
> Different values for release year and genre no longer forces a split.
> Can anybody confirm this is new behaviour
> Is this documented somewhere?


Re: Definition of an Album by Vincent

Vincent
Tue Jun 17 01:03:01 PDT 2008

I I remember correctly:
- I upgraded to WMP11 using the regular windows upgrade.
- A couple of month ago, it split albums in the old way.

Anyway, hope they stick to the current album definition

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:

>
> I don't believe the library team ever officially announced their design
> specs, no.
>
> I would suspect that people requested that those not split any more, since
> compilation albums/soundtracks would break. Wasn't that a beta-only
> separation point?
>
> --
> Speaking for myself only.
> 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.
> --
> "Vincent" <Vincent@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:15D2975B-1002-4ABC-B777-67914229BE35@microsoft.com...
> > An Album in WMP are songs with the same values for
> > - album title
> > - album artist
> > - genre
> > - release year
> >
> > Running WMP11 11.0.6001.7000 it looks like an album is:
> > - album title
> > - album artist
> >
> > Different values for release year and genre no longer forces a split.
> > Can anybody confirm this is new behaviour
> > Is this documented somewhere?
>