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

[Michael Martin-Smucker <mlmartin13 gmail com>]

What happens for common album titles (MusicBrainz returns at least 50 albums titled "Love")?  The issue starts to get tricky... ;)  As far as I can tell, the best way for Banshee to do this automatically would be some complex check of Album Title, Release Date/Year, and maybe Track Number and Disc Number.  With this information, Banshee could probably reliably group compilations together.  The obvious downfall to this plan is that all of these fields would need to be set to an accurate value, which might be even more of a challenge for some people than just setting the compilation album artist manually.

I've heard claims that other media players handle this automatically, so I'm curious to hear what they're doing.

Michael

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:04 PM, 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?

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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