Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee behaviour with compilation albums

[David Wales <yay101 gmail com>]

Hey, your process is correct. Over the years there have been a few
options for it, with "band" "album artist" being the most prominent.
Suffering from the same problem, and unaware of your usage for now i
recommend right clicking on the area above the playlist and add a
album artist column to sort by.

Dave.

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 4:01 AM, remjg <remjg free fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been searching for a while about how to handle multi-artist releases
> (compilation albums) using Banshee but I'm still very much confused.
>
> 1) How to mark an album as a compilation :
>
> As far as I've understood how to do it, I must follow these steps for each
> track of a compilation :
> - right click on a track > "Edit Track Information"
> - check "Compilation Album Artist" and write in the box below "Various
> Artists"
>
> Moreover, if I want the changed to be applied to all the files so that I'll
> not have to do it in the future with banshee or any other software, I should
> go to the menu :
> - Edit > Preferences
> - Tab "General"
> - check "Write metadata to files"
>
> As I wanted to do it faster and understand what tags were edited, I used a
> tag editor to see what changed :
> * with Banshee 1.8.1 :
> - "compilation = 1"
> - "albumartist = Various Artists"
> * with Banshee 2.0.0 :
> - "compilation = 1"
> - "performer=Various Artists"
> * With some other software, the tag that is changed is "album artist" (maybe
> I'm wrong, I've read many pages, never saying the same thing).
>
> So, I'm confused ! Could you explain to me why you decided to change the
> "performer" tag ?
> Maybe this page of the user guide
> (http://banshee.fm/support/guide/track-list/) should be updated, because
> Banshee doesn't seem to use anymore album artist metadata ?
>
> 2) How to group multi-artist releases under a "Various Artists" entry :
>
> After applying the modification below, I don't have anymore multiple entries
> in the album view for a single compilation album : good !
>
> Anyway, I expected also that the artists of these compilations (assuming I
> don't have any album of them) would be hidden in the artist browser. Amarok
> 1.4 for example (I don't know for recent versions) used to group the
> compilations under a "Various Artists" entry in the artist browser.
>
> Can Banshee adopt this behaviour ? Because for people like me who own many
> compilations, the artist browser becomes useless (too many entries).
>
> I imagine you must be bored of answering always the same questions about
> multi-artist album support. But I've seen so much information, never saying
> exactly the same thing (for banshee and other music players) that it's
> really hard to understand it clearly.
>
> Thank you very much for your help,
>
> Rémi.
>
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