*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 228422 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228422
This is definitely a different requirement to bug #228422.
This is about rhythmbox listing the tracks, not about ripping from CD.
There is basic need lacking in rhythmbox to list by album artist.
Listing by artist shows all the "one-hit-wonders" from compilation
albums and it is a PITA.
Fix:
As is:
Edit / Preferences / Browser views:
Artists and albums
Genres and artists
Genres, artists and albums
Suggested:
Edit / Preferences / Browser views:
Artists and albums
Genres and artists
Genres, artists and albums
Genres, album artist and albums << Need this
Why? I have a collection of about 300 CDs all ripped to my server. So, approx
200 artists that I'm actually interested in. But, trying to find my music,
rhythmbox shows a list of over 1000 artists. 800 of them I would NEVER seek
out to play. It's a real pain!
It gets worse with remixes, where an album artist does remixes, and so it's not
a compilation but their own original work in collaboration. E.g. Paul
Oakenfold "A lively mind". The Album artist is Paul Oakenfold, because he did
the mixing and released the album. But, each artist who wrote the original
before it was remixed is listed individually in the "artist" field. Now this
is NOT a compilation album, but, trying to play the album can only be done by
looking up the album name. So, If I want to play all Paul Oakefold's work
back-to back, the only way is to use album artist. Or, corrupt my ID3 tags as a
workaround. Which I don't want to do because it works perfectly on other
players.
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Rhythmnbox sort by "Album Artist" for guest/compilations
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/253167
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