Re: [Banshee-List] Album Artist & Rhythmbox compatibility.

[John Millikin <jmillikin gmail com>]

2009/2/16 James Lewis <james fsck co uk>:
>
> I've noticed that there's a couple of issues handling "Album Artist",
> which somone might be able to explain or perhaps a bug should be logged.
>
> 1. When ripping a compilation, Banshee doesn't seem to fill in the Album
> Artist field, dispite getting the information from MusicBrainz... this
> means it creates multiple "album" icons, one for each track which is
> very anoying.
>
What version of Banshee are you using? I believe this was fixed in 1.4.2.

> 2. When switching from Rhythmbox, you will find the same problem,
> because Rhythmbox stores it's Album Artist data in the ARTISTSORT field,
> not ALBUMARTIST.
>
Sounds like a Rhythmbox bug. I advise re-tagging such corrupted files
with Picard, which should fill in the various fields correctly.