Can I browse My Music by Album Artist and not Artist, within MCE?

Hi,

I have a large music collection with a fair few compilation albums, which is
all setup in Windows Media Player.

In Windows Media Player I have the option to view my Music collection by
Album, Album Artist, Artist, Genre, etc, etc…. Which is great.

But when I go to My Music in Media Center I only have the option to browse
by Album and Artist, and not Album Artist like in WMP, is there anyway I can
change this, possible reg edit or something??

As it is absolutely diabolical that I have to scroll through thousands of
artists to find the one I want. If was able to browse by album artist as I
can in Windows Media Player this would group my compilation albums. And
everything would be great.

I would rarely browse by Artist so if there was even a registry edit that I
could do that would make the browse by artist button display album artists
that would be great.


Many Thanks

Gary

 

^^^ Cheeky Bump ^^^

 

I'll happily bump this again. It's remarkable that with all of the updates
and upgrades to MCE this has not been fixed. I understand it's been fixed in
Vista but it needs to be fixed in XP MCE. And yes, there's probably a simple
way to replace use of Artist with Album Artist, though it probably does not
involve a registry modification--it probably involves a very minor code
modification to alter the field that is being indexed.