Re: [Banshee-List] "Album Artist"

[Mac <macdroid53 gmail com>]

I have been watching this thread with some interest (though,
admittedly, not reading every word of every post) since I've been
playing with the search capabilities of Banshee. I've not seen much
mention of these capabilities.

I have an ever growing library and typically want to filter for many
reasons. For instance, unless I'm in the right mood, most of the time
my filters include -"janis joplin" & -"Gregorian chants".  ;-)

Since the search capability uses Xesam search language, it makes it
quite easy to make very detailed filters.

I also set up compilations so as a single album art is displayed in
the cover art view.

As always, it's a personal preference and YMMV.

Regards,
Mac

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:27 AM, GnomeUnityKDELionHater
<acarbura gmail com> wrote:
> What Tatemz says and probably the most widely used app (iTunes) implements is
> the only logical thing to do. Yet Banshee tries to reinvent wheel in its own
> way, as a square.
>
> All the artists of my compilation albums unnecessarily populates (clutters)
> the narrow field left of album browser and most of those names don't mean
> anything to me as I only remember the titles of those compilation albums.
>
> The other issue, the sorting of albums by album titles instead of album
> artists in the cover art view, is much more troubling. I've got around 1000
> albums and I'd like to browse my library with this visual clue and you
> expect me to remember the titles of all those albums? I've got 12 Yes
> albums, 15 Caravan albums, 15 Renaissance albums and so on. And I've got 50
> Bach albums (I had replaced composer tags with album artist tags when I've
> ripped my classical CDs), 35 Vivaldi albums, 30 Beethoven albums etc. And I
> hardly remember the generally useless title of any one of them. I know and
> remember the titles of some works. In Banshee's cover art view all those
> albums of Yes, Caravan, Bach, Vivaldi etc. are scattered all over the place.
>
> As an example, the titles of the first six albums in my cover art view are
> "12 Concerti..." by Vivaldi. And the other 30 Vivaldi albums are scattered
> who knows where. Have you seen any music shop or any library in any place in
> the whole world like that? Have you yourself, before the time of digital
> library, put your CDs or LPs or books like that?
>
> Simply unbelievable.
>
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