GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 393707
SJ doesn't retrieve correct release artist
Last modified: 2007-06-29 10:54:36 UTC
When looking up a Various Artists release on MusicBrainz, sound-juicer sets the CD artist as the artist for the very first track, rather than as the release artist. For example: http://musicbrainz.org/show/release/?releaseid=242916 Vladimir Horowitz - Discovered Treasures SJ shows the CD artist as "Domenico Scarlatti" rather than Horowitz. However, this is reproduceable with other releases.
Sounds like the same issue as Bug 439230 – sound-juicer: does not correctly read "disc artist" from musicbrainz
*** Bug 439230 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
So it does, whoops. I really need to rewrite the Musicbrainz code! Fixed in trunk and 2.16.x
Ross: If you do a rewrite, think about using libmusicbrainz v3 which has a different API and is based on the MusicBrainz XML web service. The old RDF web service is depreciated.
Oooh, excellent. Is that released yet?
Ah never mind, found it.
You should also bump the libmuzicbrainz requirement in configure.in, since MBE_AlbumGetAlbumArtistName is only available from 2.1.5 onwards (perhaps 2.1.3/4.)
Btw, I'm using the gnome-2-16 branch.
Whoops, forgot to merge that to the branch.