GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 99363
Ignore case of artist and album (case insensitivity)
Last modified: 2005-03-15 06:00:50 UTC
It would be nice if rhythmbox tried to ignore case for artist and album names. For instance currently I have two artist "Weakerthans, The" and "weakerthans, the." If rhythmbox could detect this and show them as just one artist that would be really cool and useful since users tend not to think case-sensitively.
It's not up to RB to try to correct tags that are not put properly... we could have a tag fixing assistant at some point though.
Not only would editing the tags need some effort from the user, it wouldn't always be possible, since on a multi-user system a typical user will not have write access on all of the audio tracks he can read. You'd probably want to go futher than just ignoring case, too, so that "Belle and Sebastian" is considered the same as "Belle & Sebastian", "The Hives" is the same as "Hives, The", etc.
Really, we tried to do that at the beggining, and we realized it wouldn't work very well. We can try to ignore the case, then if there's some spaces in the artists name, it's shown as different. Thus we could trim the string, but if the name is "The BLABLA" with 2 spaces between it doesn't work. And there's a typo in the artist name, it's another case not working.... It would just add some ugly string fixing code in RB, while the solution is, of course, to properly tag the songs.
This one won't be fixed, but you might be interested in this one: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76546
fair enough