The fix is very simple: Banshee just has to list artists NOT by the "artist" tag, but by the "albumartist" tag. That's exactly why this tag exists... alternativly "albumartistsort" gives the list as the sorted list as used by librarians - both easy to use, easy to implement....
If no one wants to change the default behaviour just add an option in which every user can choose or even configure the way the different views rely on standard tags. For information on tags as most people use them checkout the "musicbrainz.org" project. Also I recommend using lollypop, clementine, quodlibet or any other music player/organizer out there - banshee is simply not up to date and seems to be neglected, 2.6.2 is a two year old bugfix release... cheers, p. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to banshee in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/776714 Title: Compilation artists should not be listed in artists view separately Status in banshee package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: banshee This might be a part of other usability improvement request, but I had not found an explicit bug report for this. Consider having a huge compilation album from some festival with hundreds of tracks by different performers. This will make Artists view very hard to browse. As suggested in related question[1] this could be fixed by putting some text into "Compilation album artist" field. An elegant solution, but should not Banshee have an embedded solution for that? Many other players do (see screenshot[2] of Clementine, for example). --- [1]: http://askubuntu.com/questions/38960/how-can-i-unclutter-artists-view-in-banshee [2]: http://i.imgur.com/FAtjQ.png To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/776714/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
