GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 127848
Artist Browser Filtering Suggestion
Last modified: 2018-05-24 10:26:07 UTC
Right now, the list of Artists in the browser contains a lot of junk, from my perspective. That is, an artist that I own only one compilation track by is listed just as prominently in the list as an artist that I own ten full albums by. Rhythmbox should be able to take a look at my collection and figure out which artists I have many tracks by, and which artists I have very few tracks by, and allow me to either remove the more obscure artists from the list or (even better) make the list tiered, with the artists I have many tracks/albums by (relative to the size of my collection) listed alphabetically first, the artists I have the least amount of music by listed alphabetically last, and the rest listed alphabetically in the middle. This would make it easier to browser for the artists I like best, as presumably these would be the artists I have the most music by. Ideally this would take into account the total duration of music by a given artist, rather than simply counting tracks, so that an album consisting of a single hour-long track (for instance) counts more than a single song on a compilation.
This depends on compilation support in bug #318579.
I agree completely with Alex, even on a good oranised collection, Rammstein, RAMMSTEIN,Ramms+ein make it difficult to control the tracks. I have a lot stuff from the demoscene so >200 artists with 1 or 2 tracks which spam the list of "normal" artists. An filter for artist with >x tracks would be the sollution. But I like to expand the request, a lot of files from DJs are tagged "x feat. y", "x vs. y" which could be parsed to correct the list. By the way things like "various artists", "VA", "unknow" or "artist / artist", "x and y" could be expanded. By the way artist of a group could be grouped together ;) All in all this refers a bit to #144283
*** Bug 585468 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Also pertinent: Artists should be sorted by keyword, not exact matches. In other words, like iTunes, articles should be ignored. "The Pixies" should be sorted between "Oasis" and "Primus" (ignoring "the").
This "The" issue was bug #133444
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