>>>>> "BH" == Ben Hellyer writes: BH> Hello, Just like to say what a fantastic job you guys are doing, BH> and with Gnome in general. Im using Ubuntu but have always BH> preffered Gnome over other Window managers.
BH> I was just wondering if you were considering "Various Artists" BH> support in Rythmbox; a bit like Amarok has. I have a serveral CD's BH> that are made up from all different artists and it makes the music BH> collection in Rythmbox clutter because of the vast amount of BH> different artist. I was just interested if there were any BH> blueprints of implementing anything like this? BH> Unfortunately I don't have enough programming skills to make a BH> plug-in myself, but I'm guessing one of easiest ways to do it is BH> to look to see which folder the songs are stored in, and from that BH> you can work out if its a compilation album or not. It's been filed as an enhancement request for quite some time now (since 2005): http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318579 but no developer seems to have been able to get time to work on it as yet. There are some suggestions on the bug about how to go about supporting this. Basically it would involve plugging in to the MusicBrainz (MB) "album artist" system and detecting if an album artist is "Various Artists". Using file and folder names would be a very fragile way to detect whether something is a compilation. For example rhythmbox will currently rip each track into Artist/Album folders, regardless of whether the CD is a compilation or not (because it has no concept of a compilation at the moment). If tracks don't have musicbrainz tags (e.g. CD wasn't found in MB lookup, or the file was imported from elsewhere), some kind of UI could be added which would: 1. allow tagging a set of tracks a compilation (a la iTunes) which in turn would internally set the "album artist" as "Various Artists". 2. expose a "compilation" checkbox for an album in the CD audio ripping source that would percolate down like 1). (If the CD was found in MB as "Various Artists" the compilation checkbox would be automatically checked. Something like this was suggested in the final comment: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318579#c11 Lastly, once compilation flags were set, rhythmbox would automatically group all tracks under a "Compilation" artist like iTunes if that option was set (possibly it should be the default). Alex _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
