GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 561484
Use MusicBrainz Release artist tag instead of plain Artist tag
Last modified: 2009-03-26 15:45:07 UTC
Please describe the problem: Banshee should use the MusicBrainz Release artist tag instead of the simple Artist tag when the former is present. This will help especially with Various artists releases. For example, all the tracks from the compilation Friends (http://musicbrainz.org/release/24160610-079a-4159-aefb-272cbefca0e7.html) have the same Release artist: "Various artists" but different Artist tags: the first has "The Rembrandts", the seconds has "Hootie & the Blowfish". Steps to reproduce: 1. Tag a Various artists compilation using MusicBrainz's Picard 2. Import the compilation into Banshee's music library Actual results: A number of new releases shows up in the music library: one for each artist present in the compilation, often one for each track. Expected results: Only one new release should show up, filed under the artist "Various artists". At the same time, the track themselves should display the correct artist in the playlist, not "Various artists" Does this happen every time? Yes Other information: You can tag the freely available CC-licensed "Wired CD" http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/35 with Picard to test this feature.
Is this bug still present in the latest version, 1.4.2? There were some compilation-related fixes in that release that might have solved this.
It has not been fixed in 1.4.2. For example, I still see 16 albums named Wired CD (each with one track) when I search for "wired". You can see the bug yourself downloading the Wired CD and tagging it with Picard. For the records, I rescanned my collection.
*** Bug 571252 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 131414 [details] Immediately after import I cannot reproduce this, see the screenshot. There's only one album in the list. Also, the "Artist" and "Album Artist" columns are populated correctly. Could you try deleting the album from Banshee (backing it up first) and then re-importing?
Created attachment 131415 [details] Track Editor This screenshot shows the track editor info for the first track. I run the svn trunk version. As John mentioned recently there have been some compilation-related fixes, if it still doesn't work for you you might want to try the trunk.
Sounds like it's fixed in trunk. Gioele, please re-open if it's not fixed in trunk (or 1.5.x when its released) for you.