On 4/29/07, Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think album artist is just a much more logical way of organizing songs > than artist is, since a lot of times a CD has tracks by different > artists, but the CD itself is organized by a single group. (A common > example: 'Diana Ross' vs. 'Diana Ross and the Supremes' on a CD of Diana > Ross' Greatest Hits.)
I agree that this would be nice. MusicBrainz, to list one working example, stores this kind of information. Here's one instance; I was actually trying to load this entire album into my queue yesterday and it proved a bit difficult: http://musicbrainz.org/release/84e5b56a-1227-4a4e-b371-43db730440c5.html # metaflac --list 01\ Franz\ Liszt\ -\ Liebestraum\ No.\ 3\ in\ A-flat\ major.flac comment[0]: TRACKTOTAL=17 comment[1]: MUSICBRAINZ_SORTNAME=Van Cliburn comment[2]: DISCID=f90fb711 comment[3]: MUSICBRAINZ_DISCID=KRnxpipVBywoeEcF8h8dVe0kycs- comment[4]: album=The World's Favorite Piano Music (Van Cliburn) comment[5]: asin=B000003F8F comment[6]: albumartistsort=Cliburn, Van comment[7]: musicbrainz_artistid=2cd475bb-1abd-40c4-9904-6d4b691c752c comment[8]: musicip_puid=85dcb7bb-2235-b3ae-59af-585c61f3ec39 comment[9]: title=Liebestraum No. 3 in A-flat major comment[10]: artist=Franz Liszt comment[11]: country=US comment[12]: compilation=1 comment[13]: artistsort=Liszt, Franz comment[14]: releasetype=compilation comment[15]: musicbrainz_trackid=b7809c3c-ca25-4921-a2f5-028c8adca237 comment[16]: releasestatus=official comment[17]: totaltracks=17 comment[18]: albumartist=Van Cliburn comment[19]: musicbrainz_albumartistid=0a8a7571-a0cd-4626-a10a-3dd57e0e559e comment[20]: musicbrainz_albumid=84e5b56a-1227-4a4e-b371-43db730440c5 comment[21]: date=1992-07-14 comment[22]: tracknumber=1 comment[23]: label=RCA Victor For the record, Rockbox supports this organization for portable audio players. Cheers, Andrew _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
