Re: [Banshee-List] Status update for the maverick applications selection

["A. James Lewis" <james fsck co uk>]

There were a few messages around this time... I'm sure the list archive
will have more.

You can see the problem in the screenshot I just took here Banshee from
Maverick repo:-

http://www.fsck.co.uk/Banshee.png

This particular file is an ogg/vorbis file, but I see the same problem
with some mp3's downloaded from the Internet, as well as some files from
iTunes.

>                              From: 
> John Millikin <jmillikin gmail com>
>                          Reply-to: 
> banshee-list gnome org
>                                To: 
> banshee-list gnome org
>                           Subject: 
> Re: [Banshee-List] Album Artist &
> Rhythmbox compatibility.
>                              Date: 
> Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:49:09 -0800
> (16/02/09 20:49:09)
> 
> 
> 2009/2/16 James Lewis <james fsck co uk>:
> >
> > I've noticed that there's a couple of issues handling "Album
> Artist",
> > which somone might be able to explain or perhaps a bug should be
> logged.
> >
> > 1. When ripping a compilation, Banshee doesn't seem to fill in the
> Album
> > Artist field, dispite getting the information from MusicBrainz...
> this
> > means it creates multiple "album" icons, one for each track which is
> > very anoying.
> >
> What version of Banshee are you using? I believe this was fixed in
> 1.4.2.
> 
> > 2. When switching from Rhythmbox, you will find the same problem,
> > because Rhythmbox stores it's Album Artist data in the ARTISTSORT
> field,
> > not ALBUMARTIST.
> >
> Sounds like a Rhythmbox bug. I advise re-tagging such corrupted files
> with Picard, which should fill in the various fields correctly.
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On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 10:06 -0500, Gabriel Burt wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 9:09 AM, A. James Lewis <james fsck co uk> wrote:
> > I don't see how Banshee can be simply dropped in to replace Rhythmbox in
> > Ubuntu when it still does not recognise the same albumsort tag as used
> > by rhythmbox.  I asked about this on the Banshee list 2 years ago, and
> > was told that Rhythmbox tags are wrong and I just need to retag 10's of
> > thousands of existing files.... this is not practical/acceptable to me
> > and I don't see how it will be to anyone else!
> 
> Can you point us to where this was discussed?  A lot has changed with
> Banshee's metadata support in the last two years (with about
> everything in Banshee, really), so this might no longer be broken.  Or
> if it is, we can reconsider a compatibility shim.
> 
> > I tested the latest Banshee in Maverick, and I still see 20 or 30 copies
> > of the same album with 1 track in each... exactly the situation I
> > pointed out before and was simply told to "go away".,,.,
> 
> Where were you told that?  (Bugzilla, or mailing list, or? URL would
> be great).  We generally have quite a friendly, helpful community, so
> I apologize you weren't responded to in a helpful way.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Gabriel
>