GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 566357
ALBUMARTIST tag ignored if it equals track artist
Last modified: 2009-01-02 21:29:01 UTC
Please describe the problem: I have an (Ogg Vorbis) album that is mostly performed by one artist, except for a track. If I edit the metadata on the tracks (from the command line, using vorbiscomment), setting the ALBUMARTIST tag, the album is still seen as two separate albums: the ALBUMARTIST tag is ignored if its value is the same as that of the ARTIST (track artist) tag. ALBUMARTIST determines the sorting / grouping of albums, therefore it should probably be kept regardless of whether the value duplicates track artist or not. Steps to reproduce: 1. Take an album by a single artist 2. Add (using vorbiscomment / metaflac / id3tag / etc.) the ALBUMARTIST tag, setting it to equal the artist tag 3. Change the artist tag on a single track to some random value 4. Load the album into Banshee Actual results: Album appears as two separate albums, as the ALBUMARTIST tag is ignored on all but the one changed track. Right-clicking on one of the other tracks show that the "Compilation Artist" field is not set Expected results: Album appears as a single album; all tracks have their Compilation Artist field. Does this happen every time? Yes Other information:
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but we are happy to tell you that the problem has already been fixed. It should be solved in the next software version. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 557313 ***