Re: [Banshee-List] Problem with compilation albums

[Keith Curtis <keithcu gmail com>]

Hmmm. I saw that advice but I didn't entirely understand it because I thought it was to help with browsing by compilation artist.

I don't understand why is that necessary. When the albums have the same name, why can't the album browser group them together? My music collection is basically a bunch of compilation albums so it would be a huge pile of work to do this. Why can't software be smart and figure this out on its own? (Even assuming that there are cases with albums of the same name, then maybe it could use a heuristic and look at the directory structure.)

This sort of barrier increases the hassles for those who want to start using Banshee (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000052.html)

-Keith

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Steven Côté <steven cote gmail com> wrote:

I'm having the same problem as below. My album browser has individual entries
for every song even though the album name is the same. (Note, I don't copy
my music over to the new structure if that matters.)

Assuming you're using a reasonably up to date version (this works in 1.4.3, the version that ships with most distros), then you need to set the Compilation Album Artist for each of the tracks in the compilation album.

I find the easiest way to do this is to select all of the entries in the album browser that you wish to group, this will filter the tracks to those on the album. Select all of the tracks and Edit Properties. Then check the Compilation Album Artist box and put something in the field (like "Various Artists" or some such). Then there's a convenient button beside the text field that will automatically set that value to all selected tracks.

Hope that helps!

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