Re: [Banshee-List] What is the album-artist issue?

[Dougal Stanton <dougal dougalstanton net>]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:04 AM, zekopeko <zekopeko gmail com> wrote:
> Why not simply always assume that if there are multiple artists in the
> same album, then it is a compilation album. Wouldn't that be less work
> for the users?

How do you know it's the same album? I mean that honestly. I would
hate for Banshee to mix up Tom Jones' Reload with Metallica's album of
the same name. And there must be any number of albums called simply
"The Best Of" and "Greatest Hits".

Cheers,


D

>
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Michael Martin-Smucker
> <mlmartin13 gmail com> wrote:
>> [Banshee-list just sent me an email letting me know that my message was too
>> big and needed moderator approval.  Since I have no idea when that will
>> happen, here's the message again without the attachment.  You can find the
>> screenshot here: http://martinsmucker.com/files/banshee-compilation.jpg ;]
>>
>> I think this is the issue you're talking about.  Basically, compilation
>> albums aren't grouped together in  Banshee's album browser unless the user
>> ticks the "Compilation Album Artist" checkbox in the track editor.  This has
>> always been the case, but the issue is a much more frequent complaint now
>> that Banshee shows cover art in a grid by default.
>> When people complain about this, it would probably be good to point them to
>> Banshee's user guide (at the bottom) [1], which explains how compilations
>> work in Banshee, as well as the relevant bug report about making this more
>> intuitive/automatic.[2]
>> [1] http://banshee.fm/support/guide/track-list/
>> [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624311
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Michael Martin-Smucker
>> <mlmartin13 gmail com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think this is the issue you're talking about.  Basically, compilation
>>> albums aren't grouped together in  Banshee's album browser unless the user
>>> ticks the "Compilation Album Artist" checkbox in the track editor.  This has
>>> always been the case, but the issue is a much more frequent complaint now
>>> that Banshee shows cover art in a grid by default.
>>> When people complain about this, it would probably be good to point them
>>> to Banshee's user guide (at the bottom) [1], which explains how compilations
>>> work in Banshee, as well as the relevant bug report about making this more
>>> intuitive/automatic.[2]
>>> [1] http://banshee.fm/support/guide/track-list/
>>> [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624311
>>> Michael
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:12 PM, zekopeko <zekopeko gmail com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I keep hearing about this but I don't have any compilation albums. Can
>>>> somebody provide a couple of screenshot and a short explanation?
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