Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee Library

[Jensen Somers <jensen somers gmail com>]

Hi,

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 16:23, zekopeko <zekopeko gmail com> wrote:
> 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.
>

If the album artist field is not filled in there's no way Banshee can
magically sort it correctly for you. Unlike Windows Media Player,
Banshee, as far as I know, does not automatically fetch meta data from
an online source but rather expects you to fill in the information
correctly. Rather than duplicating the works of an existing
application the Banshee documentation points to using Picard to tag
music files with the correct data.

>
> 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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>>>
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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.
>>>>

There are several bugs about this. I personally experience the same
thing as I have a lot of compilation albums. The main bug about this
issue seems to be https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540873
but it's still a work in progress.

>>>>
>>>> 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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>>>>

- Jensen