On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 14:28 +0100, Steve Fosdick wrote:
> I think the biggest issue is where the same artist appears in the
> listing more than once because rhythbox can not see that it is the
> same artist. This seems to happen for a number of reasons:
>
> 1. Different capitalisation.
> 2. Article present or absent ("Beatles" v. "The Beatles")
> 3. Use of "&" v. "and".
> 4. Presence or absense of commas or other punctuation.
> 5. Plain misspelling.
>
> If had been very careful and tagged all my music by hand these little
> inconsistencies would not be there but like many people, I suspect,
> many of the tags come from CDDB entries which are created by a variety
> of different people.
MusicBrainz cures all of these problems. 1, 3, 4, and 5 are fixed by
having a single "artist" entity in the database so all tracks have an
identical artist string, and 2 is fixed by providing both a human
readable name ("The Beatles") and a sortable name ("Beatles, The").
Rhythmbox uses Musicbrainz so you've either been unlucky to hit albums
which Musicbrainz doesn't have (in which case it automatically proxies
to FreeDB, returning crap) or you've got albums you haven't ripped
yourself. For the latter I won't make any further comment :) but for
the former note that Sound Juicer will alert when this happens, letting
the user quickly add the correct data to Musicbrainz.
Ross
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