Albums of compilations are shown multiple times

Bug #798932 reported by Arturo Torres Sánchez
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
BeatBox
Fix Released
Medium
Scott Ringwelski

Bug Description

In Album view, if you have a compilation where each song is by a different artist, the album is shown as many times as are artists in the compilation.
Beatbox should use the Album Artist tag to group songs in an album, and only if it's not found use the Artist tag instead.

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Victor Martinez (victored) wrote :

Since there are rarely two different albums with the same name, I'd rather suggest using only the album title for grouping.

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Scott Ringwelski (sgringwe) wrote :

Rare or not, I have lots of albums with the same name from different artists in my library. Especially "Greatest Hits" albums. I think that it would be unacceptable to have all Greatest Hits in one album.

As for the Album Artist tag, it's a good idea but unfortunately the technology I currently use does not support reading that tag.

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Scott Ringwelski (sgringwe) wrote :

I decided to go ahead and not sort by artists. Only album name.

Changed in beat-box:
milestone: none → 0.1
assignee: nobody → Scott Ringwelski (sgringwe)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Fix Released
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