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
>
>
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