Re: [Banshee-List] Problem with compilation albums

[jc <lists jcosby com>]

On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:13:38 +0100, "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?

The reason for the seperate album/artist display is the possibilty of 
duplicate album titles. I have two albums titled "The Definitive 
Collection," one by John Lee Hooker and one by Buddy Holly. Rhythymbox 
displays these as the same album, while Banshee correctly distinguishes 
them. The only way to distinguish them in Rhythymbox is to to change the 
album title. Rhythymbox also has a very limited tag editor, so there's 
little information to use in importing a library. Banshee isn't perfect, 
but I think you'll start to appreciate its features more as you go 
along.


jon