Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] case insensitive artists

[Peter <rhythmbox-devel maubp freeserve co uk>]

Cameron VanNatta wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I hope I'm doing this properly. I've never submitted feedback for any 
> opensource project before. I greatly enjoy the rhythmbox player, but one 
> of my only complaints is that the artists in the artists pane in the is 
> case sensitive. This can cause headaches when I have multiple albums of 
> "Jars of Clay" and "Jars Of Clay" or other similarities. While, I can 
> use id tag editors; it can get tedious modifying the tags when adding to 
> the library.
>
> Could the artists pane be made case insensitive?

Other people have wanted this - its has been discussed on bug Bug 104203 
and many other bugs that have been marked as its duplicates.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104203

The current bug title is Bug 104203 – rhythmbox should support 
Musicbrainz, not some random tag equality heuristic

However, I would say given the nature of a lot of the bugs Colin Walters 
has marked as duplicated, the current bug title is rather miss-leading.

Perhaps that should be a tracking meta-bug now?

I think RB would do a lot better WITHOUT having to use Musicbrainz, and 
many of these "duplicates" are independent issues:

White Space Stripping
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For example, when parsing tags from files (or indeed when loading an old 
database) doing white space stripping and removing duplicate spaces:

Bug 126567 – Eliminate redundant blank spaces in names to avoid 
duplicate names
Bug 127769 – Album/Artist name should ignore white space at beginning 
and end.
Bug 137607 – New Feature: ID3 Tag White Space Stripper

Case insensitive genres
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Another separate issue which does not really depend on Musicbrainz:

Bug 126340 – genres should be case-insensitive
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126340

Case insensitive artist
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Partly covered by the following "duplicate" bugs however there are 
examples of different bands whose names only differ in case (e.g. HiM 
and HIM).  Using Musicbrainz may be worthwhile here.

Bug 119954 – RFE: Artist should not be case sensitive
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119954

Bug 127766 – Artist/Albulm name should be case insensitive.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127766

Case insensitive album
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Partly covered by the following "duplicate" bug, but I would argue that 
while making the artist case-insensitive may have bad side effects, it 
should be harmless for the album.

Bug 127766 – Artist/Albulm name should be case insensitive.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127766

Peter