[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 776714] Re: Compilation artists should not be listed in artists view separately

[Piedro Kulman]

That's really bad. There should be a simple config file to adjust which
tag is used for each view.

But, well, the tag "albumartistsort" for the album and "artistsort" for
the single track artist exactly do what you and the librarian are
worried about - listing "Mike Oldfield" as "Oldfield, Mike" and "The
Beatles" as "Beatles, The" "The Drunken Sailors" as "Drunken Sailors,
The"...

Which still doesn't solve the capital letter issue...

BTW: If you autotag with the Musicbrainz Database these aren't created
automatically but edited by users. Check out the Musicbrainz Picard
program - it's free and does all that (heavily customizable by settings
and plugins)... yeah, you probably knew about it anyway, I get a bit
offtopic here in an official bug report... (but who care's... it's not
maintained anyway...)

Cheers, p.

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Title:
  Compilation artists should not be listed in artists view separately

Status in banshee package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: banshee

  This might be a part of other usability improvement request, but I had not found an explicit bug report for this.
  Consider having a huge compilation album from some festival with hundreds of tracks by different performers. This will make Artists view very hard to browse. As suggested in related question[1] this could be fixed by putting some text into "Compilation album artist" field. An elegant solution, but should not Banshee have an embedded solution for that? Many other players do (see screenshot[2] of Clementine, for example).

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  [1]: http://askubuntu.com/questions/38960/how-can-i-unclutter-artists-view-in-banshee
  [2]: http://i.imgur.com/FAtjQ.png

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