GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 629568
Auto-detect compilation album artists and set it so
Last modified: 2010-09-13 19:47:42 UTC
1: Add a new album with various artists 2: Browser view shows several "duplicate" albums with a single song in each of them. This is because each song has a separate artist. But, this is confusing since they are all from the same album. Workaround: Select all the new songs and "Edit Track Information" > Check the "Compilation Album Artist" checkbox and save. This is a bigger problem in several locales in Asia, since single artist albums are very rare. This needs to be done manually every time we add a new album! It would be better if banshee auto-detects such various-artist albums and automatically checked the "Compilation Album Artist" checkbox in Track Info, for all the songs in such albums. [Maybe also checking if the album names are a match? and then auto-set the flag?]
Indeed, this is a confusing process that could probably use some adjustments. I left Bug 624311 open for brainstorming (and hopefully implementing) solutions to this issue. I'm marking this as a duplicate of 624311, and I'll copy and paste your comments there. Thanks! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 624311 ***