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Well, particularly I think that having the
album artist set is the best way to handle things, considering the
aspects mentioned by IBBoard.
In my collection, even with albums with a single artist, I always fill the album artist. There are some players who deal only with a field or another, so if one wants to browse their albums by album artist and the field is blank, You're either left with unknown artist or nothing. Windows Media Player is a big example in this case. Album artist eases things up in the process of organizing things, because you might find lots of circumstances where albums have the same name and similar stuff, and browsing by album only simply doesn't help. Also, in colaborations I never use the "(feat. Guest Artist)" in the title. Every time I find this I change it to "Artist & Guest Artist" (similar to some iTunes store tracks) to keep the title field clean. Even some iTunes store tracks come with the guest artist in the title, and since iTunes and the iPhone's Music players give me the album artist facility, why bother? Needless to say that all of these things are a matter of preference so I gave the solution based on this thought. But I also think that the circumstances pointed by IBBoard are things to be considered. We've came a long way since ID3V1 and I think that things can be better now, in terms of getting a consistent music database. Em 21/04/2014 10:19, IBBoard escreveu:
Edu has given you a solution, but just to explain /why/ it happens: The simplest case of artist vs album artist is an album of collaborations. The Queens Greatest Hits 3 album is "by" Queen (as the artist), but some of the tracks are collaborations, such as Queen and David Bowie. The overall album is still by Queen (you wouldn't list it as being by Queen and David Bowie and Elton John and Wyclef Jean and…), but the artist on some tracks is different. Compilations have the same end result, but it is because each artist is different. The normal convention is to put "Various" or "Various artists" as the album artist. So, Banshee's browser groups by artist and album title, or album artist/compilation artist and album title (if the album/compilation artist is set). In the case of compilations then this is wrong, but that is why the metadata in audio tracks has the ability to be able to specify an "album artist". The reason they put that in is because you can't just assume that an album name is unique. "Greatest Hits" is a great example - go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_greatest_hits_albums and see how many bands have created an album /just/ called "Greatest Hits". Rather than just group by album title and accidentally group all of ZZ Top, Alice in Chains, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Aerosmith's separate compilations into one large album, media players assume that you've used the metadata correctly and that compilations have a compilation artist. Hopefully that makes sense. On 20/04/14 02:12, cortman wrote:I have a number of albums in my collection with various Artists. I typically leave the "Album Artist" entry blank. My problem is in the Browser pane, it shows one album with various artists as many albums, per each artist. This results in fragmented albums, which is very annoying. What can I do to change this? Something like "Sort only by album". Thanks, Cortman -- View this message in context: http://banshee-media-player.2283330.n4.nabble.com/Albums-with-various-artists-tp4651673.html Sent from the Banshee Media Player mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ banshee-list mailing list banshee-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/banshee-list (unsubscribe here)_______________________________________________ banshee-list mailing list banshee-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/banshee-list (unsubscribe here) --
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