Re: [Banshee-List] Multi-Artist albums

["Gabriel Burt" <gabriel burt gmail com>]

2008/7/23 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?

We are working on making the browsers (filters) configurable, so it'd
be entirely reasonable to have a "Track Artists" and an "Album
Artists" filter.  We'd keep the track artists on by default, but you
would be able to choose either (or neither or both) if you wanted.

Gabriel