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

[Samuel Gyger <samuel gyger at>]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:01, Jannik Heller <scrawl baseoftrash de> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 11.11.2010, 22:12 +0100 schrieb zekopeko:
>> I keep hearing about this but I don't have any compilation albums. Can
>> somebody provide a couple of screenshot and a short explanation?
>
> I have this problem too. It's very annoying, not only for compilation
> albums, but sometimes there is a featured artist on an album. The only
> solution right now is to manually set the album artist.
>
But also in e.g. Itunes you have to set a compilation artist or? (it
was like this the last time i used it. Perhaps one could load the
information from the internet, to correct ID3 Tags. And why is setting
Compilation Album Artist wrong? This would be the correct way of doing
this.

> IMO Banshee should always assume that an album with the same name is the
> same album and display it as 1 album in the browser. Different albums
> with the same name is a rather rare case. In this case, the user can set
> a different album artist so that the albums get seperated.

Very bad idea

Samuel