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Re: "Compilation": a terrible compromise

Wow. Just wow. Take a look at the entire Linux community and then come back here.

"Shenanigans!"

Re: "Compilation": a terrible compromise

Hi Sds,

I think that's the point, if you want to troll you can do it, but then you have a lower voice, if you punch us, but politely; we will not only listen more, but we will try to solve faster. If you didn't see this, our code is not open source, then don't compare us to a linux community :)

Marcelo

Re: "Compilation": a terrible compromise

So let's do this SD:
The problem is not only known, but "high" priority, and some solution ( I can promise a id3v2 only solution now) will be made, to fix the display of data of a merged album.

Beta10 is going out in a few days, so this will be in beta11 for sure.

this way we solve the problem and avoid flames for nothing. We have a bug, we will fix it.

Br

Marcelo

Re: "Compilation": a terrible compromise

Quote:

Originally Posted by sds910 (Post 217849)

Why is it, if I have my tags done properly on a compilation disc: Artist=actual track artist, Album Artist="Various Artists" or "Compilation", I have to pay the price of either a) having multiple "albums" in Canola or b) by merging them, lose the ability to see the actual artist's name on the display?

Canola should be using the "Album Artist" tag to sort and defaulting to the "Artist" tag to display in such cases... in my humble opinion, anyway.

Wouldn't that be easy enough to implement and satisfy most everyone?

Dissenting opinions?

I also don't like the "album artis" tags to be displayed instead of the "artist" because most of my music is "various artist" albums. It even scrobbles the "album artist" tag to last.fm making "Various Artist" my favorite artist, making that plug in worthless to me. I can change the "album artist" on all my tracks but than it will make some big problems in mediamonkey.
Please fix this for us. It can't be that hard to code?

Re: [Canola] "Compilation": a terrible compromise

I'm afraid I don't understand why this is hard. If someone would please explain it to me in small words on drool proof paper, I'll be grateful. :-)

Any media player should display the album title, the song title, and the name of the artist. When it's a compilation album, the artist tag is the one to display, not "Compilation" as Canola does.

If that is not the way it's supposed to work, then please tell me how I must re-tag my music. I don't like it that last.fm thinks my favorite artist is "Various Artists". :-(