GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 337781
Bad and unwanted "Artist" names clutter the "Artist" list.
Last modified: 2006-04-09 09:43:12 UTC
Please describe the problem: I've imported all my tracks and three-quarters of my "Artist" list consists of bogus artist names. This makes the interface hard to use. There are also many legitimate artist names that I nevertheless do not want to appear in the main artist list (eg, some random one-off track by some random person.) I don't want to delete this stuff, I just want to banish it to a sort of "dog house" away from the artist list proper. For instance, Alt-n might move the selected artist entry to 'Miscellaneous'. I'd be happy to write such a patch next week; please let me know what you think about the idea in general. Steps to reproduce: Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
This is really similar to bug #318579. If you hack on that, try to make something a bit more generic than what you need, ie instead of having a single "Misc" artist name where you put all the artists you want to hide, it would be nice to be able to group N entries under an arbitrary artist name, M other entries under another artist name and so on (this would make it easier to add compilation support at a later point). However, I dunno if that's easy to do, and if such a patch would be welcome (though my feelings are that it's probably not trivial to do, and that such a patch would be accepted if done right)
As well as being similar to 318579, it's a duplicate of bug 154671. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 154671 ***