Re: [Muine] My own little rant

[Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org>]

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 18:37 +1200, Alastair Porter wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 19:25 +0200, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 01:03 +0100, iain wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 19:35 +0200, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> > > > Artist: Some Artist, Title: Blah, Album: The Album seems to be just fine
> > > > as no information is gone, and no tags are incorrectly used.
> > > > 
> > > > So I think we should definetely support the 3rd case.
> > > 
> > > I disagree that "Various Artists" is a sucky solution.
> > > Take the compilation "Now 42" for example.
> > > About 40 different tracks, all different artists.
> > > The artist is defintely not simply the artist of the first track.
> > 
> > Of course not.  But if you set the artist of the track to the artist
> > tag, the application grokking those files, say, muine, will recognise
> > they belong together and display the album as being by "Artist A, Artist
> > B, and Artist C".  Or, in the case of 40 different artists: "Artist A,
> > Artist B, and others"
> 
> If i can add my 2c...
> I agree that "Various artists" sucks. However, I don't particularly like
> the way that Albums are sorted alphabetically when it is by various
> artists.
> Case in point, I have a 4 CD "Best of pack" by various artists. Since it
> sorts by the artist that comes first in the alphabet, i find i have 4
> albums (since i named the albums "Album Blah CDn") all around the album
> browser.
> I was thinking how i think about albums in real-life and realsied that
> when i'm looking for a multi-artist album, i think of by the album name,
> not the artist then album name, so..
> If Muine notices that an album is by say, >5 artists, sorting the album
> in the album list by Title, among the others which are sorted by artist
> would probably be really usable.
> (I hope this is what the thread is about.. I haven't really be following
> it too closely ;-)

This is a really good idea.. I'll code this up. Cheers!

Jorn