Re: [Banshee-List] Handling various artist albums

["Josiah Ritchie" <josiah ritchietribe net>]

On Jan 28, 2008 3:43 AM, Patryk Zawadzki <patrys pld-linux org> wrote:
> 2008/1/28 David Nielsen <david lovesunix net>:
> > I've been playing around with trunk for a bit and I noticed that the way
> > we handle albums by multiple artists introduces some undesirable
> > functionality.
> >
> > E.g. I have the Labrador summer sampler 2007 album[1], this "album"
> > contains 68 songs by some 28 artists. In the Album browser however thus
> > this one album is displayed as 28 seperate albums instead of one. The
> > same is true for all various artist albums.
>
> The way it works in other players (including iTunes) is to add an
> albumartist tag set to something like "Various Artists." Does Banshee
> handle that?

It is really annoying to me when I see a song and thing "Oh, who did
that?" and look only to find "Various Artists". Is there some way we
can group an album together irrespective of artist and not have to
deal with the blight that is "Various Artists". I never understood why
anyone thought that to be the slightest bit useful. I've been using
iTunes a bit lately and this is one of the many gripes I have with it.
Anyone planning a Mac port?

JSR/

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