Re: [Banshee-List] Problem with compilation albums

[Tommy Carstensen <tommy carstensen gmail com>]

If you right click your track and choose "Edit Track Information",
then you can check the "Compilation Album Artist" box and fill out the
name of the compilation artist (e.g. Various Artists). I hope this
helps. Tommy

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 3:35 PM, A. James Lewis <james fsck co uk> 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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