[Banshee-List] feature request: Album-artists based media browser sorting, multiple Artist support on song.

[rainyday <aminfaiz gmail com>]

Right now the browser only supports browsing by "Artist". this creates
problem if one have compilation albums (albums with multiple artists). they
are usually placed under "Various Artists" as "Album Artists". in current
browser mode "Various Artists" doesn't show up. instead it creates a lot of
artists from the compilation album with only 1 or 2 songs. This can be
solved by allowing browser to sort by "Album Artists" and if the field is
blank then look for "Artist". Players like winamp, itune, windows media
player, mediamonkey, etc, and hardware music players (ipod etc)  can already
do that so i think about time for banshee to do the same.

it would also be nice if the browser sorting fields can be customized so
that users can choose what way to sort (for example sort by year, genre,
etc)

another problem in banshee is that it doesn't support multiple artists in a
song. if a song has multiple names as "Artist" then banshee treats them
whole a new artist (even if they are separated by comma, semi-colon etc).
ID3 tag spec supports multiple artists separated by comma i think.

i think the above two problem are the most basic and fundamental one and
should be corrected immediately to bring banshee in line with other standard
media jukeboxes out there. 



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