Re: [Banshee-List] Multi-Artist albums

["Steven Coté" <steven cote gmail com>]

I get that and I agree, though I think in the artist browser it would be
better to use "album artist" to list the artists, this way you can see
who made the track in the listview and have a clean browser on the other
hand.

Personally, I don't think either solution is particularly ideal. I'm not too sure what the solution is but as it stands now, there's two scenarios that I can think of where the Album Artist and Track Artist are different.

1. Soundtrack/Compilation - AA = Various Artists, TA = different artist names.
2. Album with guest artists - AA = Foo, TA = "Foo, featuring Bar"

In scenario 1, I think using the Track Artist in the artist browser is the right thing to do. This will give you a complete list of all artists in your library, regardless of what album their track is found.

In scenario 2 though, the Album artist is a much better solution, because it gets rid of silly duplicates of the artist Foo (I want "Foo featuring Bar" and "Foo featuring Baz" to just be listed under "Foo").

Now, ask me a hard question like, what do we do about it?

Would perhaps a 3rd browser window be out of the question? This would be really cluttered from a UI point of view, but perhaps you could select which browsers are displayed in a similar way to how you can already select which columns are displayed on the library.

I'm not necessarily advocating this suggestion, it's just the first solution that I thought of. Any other possible ideas out there?