There were a few messages around this time... I'm sure the list archive will have more.
You can see the problem in the screenshot I just took here Banshee from Maverick repo:- http://www.fsck.co.uk/Banshee.png This particular file is an ogg/vorbis file, but I see the same problem with some mp3's downloaded from the Internet, as well as some files from iTunes. > From: > John Millikin <jmilli...@gmail.com> > Reply-to: > banshee-l...@gnome.org > To: > banshee-l...@gnome.org > Subject: > Re: [Banshee-List] Album Artist & > Rhythmbox compatibility. > Date: > Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:49:09 -0800 > (16/02/09 20:49:09) > > > 2009/2/16 James Lewis <ja...@fsck.co.uk>: > > > > I've noticed that there's a couple of issues handling "Album > Artist", > > which somone might be able to explain or perhaps a bug should be > logged. > > > > 1. When ripping a compilation, Banshee doesn't seem to fill in the > Album > > Artist field, dispite getting the information from MusicBrainz... > this > > means it creates multiple "album" icons, one for each track which is > > very anoying. > > > What version of Banshee are you using? I believe this was fixed in > 1.4.2. > > > 2. When switching from Rhythmbox, you will find the same problem, > > because Rhythmbox stores it's Album Artist data in the ARTISTSORT > field, > > not ALBUMARTIST. > > > Sounds like a Rhythmbox bug. I advise re-tagging such corrupted files > with Picard, which should fill in the various fields correctly. > _______________________________________________ > banshee-list mailing list > banshee-l...@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/banshee-list On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 10:06 -0500, Gabriel Burt wrote: > Hi James, > > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 9:09 AM, A. James Lewis <ja...@fsck.co.uk> wrote: > > I don't see how Banshee can be simply dropped in to replace Rhythmbox in > > Ubuntu when it still does not recognise the same albumsort tag as used > > by rhythmbox. I asked about this on the Banshee list 2 years ago, and > > was told that Rhythmbox tags are wrong and I just need to retag 10's of > > thousands of existing files.... this is not practical/acceptable to me > > and I don't see how it will be to anyone else! > > Can you point us to where this was discussed? A lot has changed with > Banshee's metadata support in the last two years (with about > everything in Banshee, really), so this might no longer be broken. Or > if it is, we can reconsider a compatibility shim. > > > I tested the latest Banshee in Maverick, and I still see 20 or 30 copies > > of the same album with 1 track in each... exactly the situation I > > pointed out before and was simply told to "go away".,,., > > Where were you told that? (Bugzilla, or mailing list, or? URL would > be great). We generally have quite a friendly, helpful community, so > I apologize you weren't responded to in a helpful way. > > Cheers, > > Gabriel > -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop