Try running banshee with masstagger under wine. Banshee is great, but nothing can replace the abilitys of its tagging.
On Jun 13, 2011 6:13 AM, "A. James Lewis" <
james fsck co uk> wrote:
> 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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