[Feature Request] Library mode should use album_artist if available
Bug #152646 reported by
Jamie Macey
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Decibel Audio Player |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Anonym25712 |
Bug Description
I have a lot of compilation albums in my library, and the current way the library plugin groups files (by artist tag) makes it really awkward if I want to listen to a particular album through the library browser.
I'd like to request that if a track has an 'album_artist' tag (which seems to be at least more standard than Quod Libet's 'disc_number' vs iTunes' 'PARTINSET' tags) to use that for organization rather than the 'artist' tag?
(Maybe it should be a preferences option?)
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I was about to report this too. Another fix would be to allow the user to toggle the ordering of the tracks between sorted by artist and sorted by album.
Complex players like rhythmbox will allow you to order tracks by any column, but I'm not sure that any of the possible orderings other than by artist or by album are actually useful. Some of them might come in handy now and then but I don't think you'd use them regularly.
I think Muine's Play Album window groups all the tracks by album and then orders the albums by artist name and then, within an artist, by album name. That might work also. I don't remember how the sorting works in Muine's other window, the Play Song one.