Re: [Banshee-List] Problem with compilation albums

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

Let me clarify a tiny bit here... I understand that you're attempting to
do some extra, clever stuff... and I actually think the UI you have for
editing the track information is really very good... but I have 2
issues.

1. When confronted with 20 tracks where the Field "ALBUM" is all the
same, and the field "ALBUMSORT" is set to "Various Artists"... why do
you need me to tell you that this is a compilation album by "Various
Artists"?

2. OK, fair enough... maybe there is some reason, the tagging of the
existing files is not perfect... whatever, but when I do spend the time
to correct all that information... why isn't it written back to the tags
in the files, at least an option to do so would make this effort seem
worthwhile, even if I still raise point 1.

James.


On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 14:35 +0100, A. James Lewis wrote:
> OK, I have to say that Banshee is a very great deal more modern, pretty,
> functional... any number of things I could list, than Rhythmbox, but why
> am I coming back to this 2 years later.... 
> 
> I tried to explain this problem at length, possibly to the point where
> people stopped even listening previously, this time... just a
> screenshot.
> 
> http://www.fsck.co.uk/Bugs/Banshee-WTF.png
> 
> I don't know what the problem is, or what the solution is... but, this
> is not good default behaviour.
> 
> James
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 13:26 +0100, James Lewis wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 04:57 -0700, Keith Curtis wrote:
> > > It worries me that this e-mail list is filled only with the sort of
> > > people who install tagging software. Maybe the only people who use
> > > Banshee are those who have done this because all of those who haven't
> > > re-tagged got frustrated with Banshee and quit using it. And so it
> > > creates a problem of groupthink.
> > > 
> > I'm still listening... but I abandoned Banshee for this exact reason, I
> > received a response which I found quite abrasive after pointing out that
> > it would be hard to migrate users from Rhythmbox if Banshee was not able
> > to correctly index files tagged with that player.
> > 
> > Windows Media Player, and iTunes tags things in a certain way, which is
> > also strictly "incorrect"... as does Rhythmbox, but if Banshee doesn't
> > accept that there are millions of MP3's out there tagged like this, it
> > will never get the success it deserves, because people will run it once,
> > see it make a hash of indexing their library, and drop it again.
> > 
> > 
> > > For all those who have done this, they don't care what the behavior is
> > > so I don't even know why they are arguing with me.
> > > 
> > > To be honest, this change is pretty easy. A better question is whether
> > > Banshee can smartly handle albums with multiple CDs.
> > > 
> > > -Keith
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
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