Album Artist & Track Artist

[Mehdi Abaakouk]

I wish Listen can handle and differentiate between "album artist" and "track artist" in ID3 tag. Sometimes, in a song, the album artist can be different from the track artist (esp. compilation album or when an album artist invite another artist to perform in the song). So better library handling can be achieved if "album artist" and "track artist" are handled differently.

This ticket was migrated from the old trac: re #679
Originally reported by: golvin

[Mehdi Abaakouk (sileht)]

It could be done by adding support for Composer-Tag. Because "Artist" is mostly already used. Would be cool to support as much Tags as possible. Most important for me: Composer, Disc.

Originally reported by: ezTol

[Mehdi Abaakouk (sileht)]

I realized that some players in Windows (e.g. Winamp and Windows Media Player (sorry to say)) uses the 'band' tag to indicate album artist. Most of my music, if not all, are filled with album artists in their 'band' tags.

Originally reported by: golvin

[Mehdi Abaakouk (sileht)]

There is a version of listen that supports "Album Artist". Have a look at the patch of ticket #663. Sadly, it is against old listen 0.5 (Revision 758) and has not been completely merged into current svn.

I use this patch to change the second browser column to "Album Artist" (mapped to TPE2/BAND id3-tag in config.py, see below). In my library, compilations with multiple artists have this tag uniformly set to "Various Artists", so they sort nicely below this one entry imitating iTunes' "Compilations" folder. The "Artist" of a song remains untouched.

Any chance to get this really really cool behavior for 0.6 ??

in config.py
{{{
            "num8_frame2":"",
            "num8_frame":"TPE2",
            "num8_label":_("Album Artist"),
            "num8_tag":"album artist",
}}}

Side note: you might need this patch for local.py (fixed in current svn version!)

{{{
class ImportFolderJob(Job):
    __message = _("Loading...")
    def __init__(self,dirs,message=_("Reading directories...")):
        if not dirs:
            dir = WinDir().run()
            if dir: dirs = [ dir ]

        if dirs:
            self.message = _("Reading directories...")
            self.dirs = dirs
            super(ImportFolderJob,self).__init__()
}}}

Originally reported by: gato