It seems that the people from GNOME are not interested in implementing this feature. They ignore all the bugreports for several years now although this can't be very difficult to implement.
About half a year ago someone submittet a patch that looks interesting but until now nothing had changed. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678706 Perhaps someone from Ubuntu could have a look at it and apply it for the Ubuntu users if it works. ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #678706 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678706 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to rhythmbox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/253167 Title: Rhythmbox sort by "Album Artist" for guest/compilations Status in The Rhythmbox Music Management Application: Confirmed Status in “rhythmbox” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: rhythmbox For guest artists on an album or compilations Apple allows definition of an album artist and artist for each track. Rhythmnbox only allows browsing by track artists so many artists appear listed with only one track. Example, Red Book by Texas: 1. 036 - Texas 2. Getaway - Texas 3. Can't Resist - Texas 4. What About Us - Texas 5. Cry - Texas 6. Sleep - Texas featuring Paul Buchanan 7. Get Down Tonight - Texas 8. Nevermind - Texas 9. Bad Weather - Texas 10. Master Thief - Texas 11. Just Holding On - Texas 12. Red Book - Texas The sixth track has artist "Texas featuring Paul Buchanan" whilst all others are "Texas". I want to browse by album artist selecting "Texas" and seeing all 12 tracks on the album, not just the 11 that match. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/rhythmbox/+bug/253167/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
