GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 569963
compilation albums with tracks by compilation artist not handled properly
Last modified: 2009-02-18 17:54:21 UTC
It seems the compilation support doesn't work out quite right with compilation albums that contain tracks by the compilation artist. For example, the Lost in Space soundtrack (yeah, I know… it was cheap and a long time ago) gets the album artist Bruce Broughton from MusicBrainz. The first 9 tracks are by various artists and 10 last by Broughton himself. Here's the MusicBrainz page for it: http://musicbrainz.org/release/77d3402a-b04c-49a2-88df-12c337226a6f.html In the Album list view (the thing with the album covers, second from the left), I get two Lost in Space / Bruce Broughton albums. And when I enter the track information editor for one of the nine first tracks, the compilation artist field is enabled and the check box marked. For the last ten tracks by Broughton, the checkbox isn't checked and the text field is disabled although it contains the right text. It seems I can set things right by checking the checkbox on the Broughton authored tracks, but Banshee should get this right based on the metadata. Here's what metaflac --list says about the first track: comment[0]: TRACKTOTAL=19 comment[1]: DISCID=0a0fef13 comment[2]: MUSICBRAINZ_DISCID=0YXZQXEc51ma1m_pbLlMe3m000I- comment[3]: title=Lost in Space (Theme) comment[4]: releasecountry=GB comment[5]: label=TVT Soundtrax comment[6]: totaltracks=19 comment[7]: musicbrainz_albumartistid=8efdd66f-98b8-4cfd-95da-62af1b0d85c9 comment[8]: date=1998-03-31 comment[9]: asin=B000005ZD6 comment[10]: albumartistsort=Broughton, Bruce comment[11]: language=eng comment[12]: artist=Apollo 440 comment[13]: format=CD comment[14]: musicbrainz_albumid=77d3402a-b04c-49a2-88df-12c337226a6f comment[15]: releasestatus=official comment[16]: albumartist=Bruce Broughton comment[17]: catalognumber=EPC 491303 2 comment[18]: album=Lost in Space comment[19]: musicbrainz_artistid=1ff10dff-7ac7-4e53-bc02-d5c3cbd8448b comment[20]: releasetype=soundtrack comment[21]: compilation=1 comment[22]: script=Latn comment[23]: musicbrainz_trackid=b01706d2-5dfd-400a-9647-308a70df3cd8 comment[24]: artistsort=Apollo 440 comment[25]: tracknumber=1 Here's what it says about the first track by Broughton: comment[0]: TRACKTOTAL=19 comment[1]: DISCID=0a0fef13 comment[2]: MUSICBRAINZ_DISCID=0YXZQXEc51ma1m_pbLlMe3m000I- comment[3]: title=Reprogram the Robot comment[4]: releasecountry=GB comment[5]: label=TVT Soundtrax comment[6]: totaltracks=19 comment[7]: musicbrainz_albumartistid=8efdd66f-98b8-4cfd-95da-62af1b0d85c9 comment[8]: date=1998-03-31 comment[9]: asin=B000005ZD6 comment[10]: albumartistsort=Broughton, Bruce comment[11]: language=eng comment[12]: artist=Bruce Broughton comment[13]: format=CD comment[14]: musicbrainz_albumid=77d3402a-b04c-49a2-88df-12c337226a6f comment[15]: releasestatus=official comment[16]: albumartist=Bruce Broughton comment[17]: catalognumber=EPC 491303 2 comment[18]: album=Lost in Space comment[19]: musicbrainz_artistid=8efdd66f-98b8-4cfd-95da-62af1b0d85c9 comment[20]: releasetype=soundtrack comment[21]: compilation=1 comment[22]: script=Latn comment[23]: musicbrainz_trackid=db71e253-0d04-4d24-ab24-2fe9b90b7c13 comment[24]: artistsort=Broughton, Bruce comment[25]: tracknumber=10
Are you sure you're running 1.4.2 ? I'm asking for confirmation because your problem seems similar to bug #557313, which was fixed in 1.4.2.
Yeah, it certainly sounds similar. However, it does say in the about box it's 1.4.2. This is a Ubuntu Intrepid system, and the package is 1.4.2-1~intrepid1 from the Banshee PPA at https://edge.launchpad.net/~banshee-team/+archive/ppa .
The fix for bug #557313 isn't retroactive - can you try reimporting and see if they're imported correctly?
*** Bug 572174 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Thanks, reimport worked right. I guess this was a dupe after all.
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. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 557313 ***