Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee Library

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Just to extend on that, it is actually Banshee that is doing the right
thing based on the data it has. The tags in MP3s have specific purposes,
and the "compilation album artist" is there to allow compilations to be
grouped under "Various" or the main band's name if they did a lot of
collaborations. WMP was either reading some non-standard data or pulling
it from somewhere else to group the albums the way it did, but as soon
as you add the standard meta-data to your files then Banshee will do the
same thing - as will any other app that follows the tagging standard
properly :)



On 11/09/10 14:05, Samuel Gyger wrote:
> No Problem with Banshee, just mark all the songs of the same Album and
> Right Click, Edit Track Information, set Track Compilation Artist to
> Thrillseekers.
> 
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> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 06:26, Healix <eriksp comcast net> wrote:
>>
>> I miss the way Windows Media Player sorts tracks - by album artist instead of
>> individual track artists. I was wondering if this is possible in Banshee.
>>
>> For example, I have a compilation album 'Nightmusic, Vol. 1' by
>> Thrillseekers:I miss the way Windows Media Player and WinAMP sorts tracks -
>> by album artist instead of individual track artists. I was wondering if this
>> is possible in Banshee
>>
>> For example, I have a compilation album 'Nightmusic, Vol. 1' by
>> Thrillseekers:
>> http://www.amazon.com/Nightmusic-1-Thrillseekers/dp/B000BYR9WC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1283731175&sr=8-1
>> Album on Amazon
>>
>> I'd like the entire album to show up under 'Thrillseekers' in the music
>> browser. Instead, since each individual track is by a different artist, the
>> album is brutally torn up and scattered into dozens of artists I've never
>> heard of and don't care to have in my browser.
>>
>> I can hardly fathom that anyone would want to sort their music this way. If
>> Windows Media Player can get it right, then surely Banshee should be able
>> to. Is there any way to go about this without manually editing the tags for
>> my whole library?
>>
>> I'd like the entire album to show up under 'Thrillseekers' in the music
>> browser. Instead, since each individual track is by a different artist, the
>> album is brutally torn up and scattered into dozens of artists I've never
>> heard of and don't care to have in my browser.
>>
>> I can hardly fathom that anyone would want to sort their music this way. If
>> Windows Media Player can get it right, then surely Banshee should be able
>> to. Is there any way to go about this without manually editing the tags for
>> my whole library?
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