Apologies if this isn't posted in the correct place. This is my first post.
I recently picked up a Lumia 520 as a gift for my father to use as an .mp3 player and GPS unit. I cataloged all of his CD's and loaded them onto the device, however, almost all of his albums were compilations that include tracks by various artists (Basically "Now that's what I call music" type CD's but with older artists). I used windows media player to rip all the CD's and it had no problem finding the albums and pulling in all of the album details, track listings, track artists, album covers, etc.
Once I loaded all of these on the 520 though, none of the artists show up in the artist view. The only artists that show up are ones that had dedicated albums. All of the compilation albums show up as 'various artists'. Thus if he were trying to search for a particular artist he won't find it. He would either have to search for a specific song title, or know exactly which compilation album to look for. (Seeing as how lots of these albums are things like "Billboard top 20 songs of 1968", he's not going to know where to look... The artists are definitely on there though, if you navigate to a track and play it, it shows the artist name.
How can I fix this? All of the songs are loaded on a micro SD card and not on the device itself.
:unhappysweat:
I recently picked up a Lumia 520 as a gift for my father to use as an .mp3 player and GPS unit. I cataloged all of his CD's and loaded them onto the device, however, almost all of his albums were compilations that include tracks by various artists (Basically "Now that's what I call music" type CD's but with older artists). I used windows media player to rip all the CD's and it had no problem finding the albums and pulling in all of the album details, track listings, track artists, album covers, etc.
Once I loaded all of these on the 520 though, none of the artists show up in the artist view. The only artists that show up are ones that had dedicated albums. All of the compilation albums show up as 'various artists'. Thus if he were trying to search for a particular artist he won't find it. He would either have to search for a specific song title, or know exactly which compilation album to look for. (Seeing as how lots of these albums are things like "Billboard top 20 songs of 1968", he's not going to know where to look... The artists are definitely on there though, if you navigate to a track and play it, it shows the artist name.
How can I fix this? All of the songs are loaded on a micro SD card and not on the device itself.
:unhappysweat: