[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 776714] Re: Compilation artists should not be listed in artists view separately

[Piedro Kulman]

"...this could be fixed by putting some text into "Compilation album
artist" field"

No it won't help. I write tags to the files, I tag album artist of the
"Kill Bill soundtrack" as ""Various Artists" or as "Kill Bill artist
collection" (whatever ...). I make sure I saved the changes:

Still I get a list in the browser view left of the album grid including artists like"[dialogue]", "Nancy Sinatra" and so forth .... 
I have only ONE album in my collection and the browser view still shows TWELVE entries! 

That is still annoying and I said it elsewhere and utter it here again:
If someone doesn't grasp the problem here please check out Itunes
behaviour because it's very well thought through and the quasi standard
people expect to be at least enabled to list AND browse their music
collection ...

I really don't get why this is such a big deal: It's just about making
the browser view optional as the setting for the folder hierarchy
already does ... - the folder hierarchy setting offers
"albunartist/album" so PLZ add a setting option "browser view" where
users can CHOOSE their preferred browser behaviour.

using banshee 2.3.6 still no change on the issue. It's been discussed
for about 6 years now.

piedro

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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).

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  [1]: http://askubuntu.com/questions/38960/how-can-i-unclutter-artists-view-in-banshee
  [2]: http://i.imgur.com/FAtjQ.png

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