Re: [Banshee-List] Problem with compilation albums

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

On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 15:55 +0200, Tommy Carstensen wrote:
> 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
> 
Yes, I can see that you can do that... my question is why is it felt
that when Banshee is really targeted at replacing Rhythmbox, why it does
not read the tags written by that player correctly?

I have a slight correction of my previous comment to make, since I did
find the option in preferences to allow it to write the changes back to
the tags in the file, and although I would have liked if it was more
obvious in the "Edit Track Information" dialog... I can see that this is
a learning curve for the application.

That said, I now have some 500 albums to update... I would not embark on
this task unless the work was saved back to the files, but at the same
time, this will involve literally weeks of my upload bandwidth to push
these changes back to the cloud storage, and so... having looked very
closely at the tags involved previously, while I agree that Banshee is
more correct in what it writes than Rhythmbox... it does seem
unreasonable not to recognise what has been written by rhythmbox, when
tags written by Windows Media Centre and iTunes are even more vague, and
are handled explicitly.

James.


> 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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