Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee Library

[zekopeko <zekopeko gmail com>]

Users don't care for Banshee having proper tagging standard. They
expect it to do the sane thing. I think that this is a bug and is
impacting user experience.

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:06 PM, IBBoard <ibboard gmail com> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> Samuel
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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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