Re: [Banshee-List] Handling various artist albums

["Josiah Ritchie" <josiah ritchietribe net>]

2008/1/28 Alan McGovern <alan mcgovern gmail com>:
>
> > I understand that albumartist is meant to be used to bring an album
> > together, but I don't understand why it is needed and what you'd put
> > in it that would be useful.
>
> Suppose there's a guy called 'Now Dance 2008' who takes the top 20 dance
> songs from 2008 and creates a compilation CD of them. This means when you
> rip the album and add it to your library, you'll end up with 20 'artists' in
> your playlist each of which contains 1 track. Nowhere will you see 'Now
> Dance 2008'.
>
> Now in steps in the AlbumArtist tag. What you do is set AlbumArtist = 'Now
> Dance 2008', then you set each individual 'Artist' tag according to the
> artist who created that particular song. Once you've done this, all
> supporting media libraries will say "Hey, this has an AlbumArtist tag" and
> will group songs by 'AlbumArtist / Album' rather than 'Artist / Album'. Your
> library will then display the album under an 'Artist' called 'Now Dance
> 2008'. This will contain those 20 tracks.
>
> Suppose one of the tracks is Moby - Porcelain. It will show up in the artist
> 'Now Dance 2008', but it won't show up under the artist 'Moby'.
>
> I hope that makes sense (and more importantly i got it right).

Did a bug report ever get made for this? If not, I'll post one and try
to properly represent the ideas mentioned. If you'd like to get CC'd
to it holler and I'll add you. :-)

JSR/

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