GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 404516
Albums don't sort correctly for some similar album names
Last modified: 2018-05-24 12:20:05 UTC
I have two albums that don't get sorted correctly (i.e. they effectively get considered to be 1 album). They are: Album #1: I by The Magnetic Fields Album #2: "i" by A.R. Kane Note that Album #2 includes quotes in the title, and is a lowercase "i". Album #1 contains no quotes, and is an uppercase I. This is the official title for each at Amazon, Allmusic, etc. When sorted by album, the tracks of each album get interspersed, like this: Album #1, Track1 Album #2, Track1 Album #1, Track2 Album #2, Track2 etc. The desired behavior is, obviously: Album #1, Track1 Album #1, Track2 ... Album #2, Track1 Album #2, Track2 etc. Other information:
Similarly, the album "Greatest Hits" becomes a catch-all for all artists, and sorting by Album does the same thing. I'd think this could be fixed by making the Album sort sort by Album->Artist->Track. That seems to make more sense IMO.
This is what happens for me I'm using the Ubuntu version from the repositories. It is Rhythmbox 0.11.2
Created attachment 188234 [details] [review] sort albums by album artist after title If album artist field is blank then use artist instead. This should fix the bug for correctly tagged files. It'll break compilations where the album artist field isn't set. I don't know if that's acceptable or not. (My opinion is that people should fix their tags, but then I'm fairly obsessive compulsive about my tags and I realise not everyone else is.)
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