WMP 10 album names

[Travis]

I just upgraded to media player 10, and some of my albums
show up on the left side of the library in the form: Album
Name (Artist Name). I don't know why the artist's name is
appearing in parentheses. The real problem with this is
that this is occurring with some songs in an album and not
in others, so each album is split up into two groups and I
can't just click and play an album. Renaming the original
album doesn't fix it, and the name shows up normally in the
main screen of the library.

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

I just upgraded to media player 10, and some of my albums
show up on the left side of the library in the form: Album
Name (Artist Name). I don't know why the artist's name is
appearing in parentheses. The real problem with this is
that this is occurring with some songs in an album and not
in others, so each album is split up into two groups and I
can't just click and play an album. Renaming the original
album doesn't fix it, and the name shows up normally in the
main screen of the library.

I have asked for this to go on the WMP FAQ, but I think the team is
reluctant to explain anything about library issues.

Albums in WMP are produced by the combination of Album Title & Album
Artist. Where you see the parenthetic terms is where the tracks have the
Album Artist filled in. Where you don't, the tracks will appear under
Album Artist = Unknown.

A quick way to combine the two is to drag the tracks from the latter to
the former so that the Album Artist field is filled in.