Re: [Banshee-List] Problem with compilation albums

[John Doe <nxxs inbox com>]

You could just as easily tag your compilation albums differently, for example making the title tag "artist - title", and the artist tag "various". this would also solve your problem. The current way banshee handles compilation lbums seems more than sufficient. Switching the default is unnecessary, since the fix is so easy.


Keith Curtis wrote:

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Alexander Kojevnikov <alexander kojevnikov com> wrote:

2009/10/13 Keith Curtis <keithcu gmail com>:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Alexander Kojevnikov
> <alexander kojevnikov com> wrote:
>>
>> 2009/10/13 Keith Curtis <keithcu gmail com>:
>> > I don't understand why is that necessary. When the albums have the same
>> > name, why can't the album browser group them together?
>>
>> Because different artist can have albums with the same name, you don't
>> wan't to group them. See bgo#570889 [1]
>>
> There are also cases of different artists with the same name, so I can just
> imagine how you might propose to fix that! :-)

No need for sarcasm, I'm trying to help.

Actually, it was just a little joke but that also points out a real problem -- even artist name along won't fully solve problems. When dealing in the world of humans, heuristics are usually required.

If you read the bug I referenced you will see that just grouping
everything by album name will break things.

I understand that. My point was that you have problems either way, but I think you should switch the default. As I said, the number of users with compilation albums must be higher than the number of users with different artists having the same album name.

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