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

[zekopeko <zekopeko gmail com>]

Good point. Perhaps employ Musicbrainz for advanced matching?

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Dougal Stanton
<dougal dougalstanton net> wrote:
> 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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