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



On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 12:49 -0800, John Millikin wrote:
> 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.
>
I am using 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.
>
Given that the TPE2 (Orchestra) tag is already supported as a fallback
for compatibility with WMP which also uses a legacy tag, I don't think
it's unreasonable to handle this case also, especially since Rhythmbox
is your No.1 competitor under most Gnome environments.

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A. James Lewis (james fsck co uk)
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