Rhythmbox doesn't deal sanely with multiple artist CDs

[Caroline Ford]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

Hardy, rhythmbox 0.11.5-0ubuntu6

Trying to rip a CD using rhythmbox with multiple artists on will cause rhythmbox to stick each artist in its own directory. There is no option to keep the entire CD together.

This makes rhythmbox unsuitable for ripping compilation CDs.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report.

[Dylan Justice (dsjstc)]

This is not restricted to ripping. It is also a factor with pre-existing compilations, soundtracks, and albums with single-track guest artists.

[Sergio Matiauda (smatiauda)]

This is also an issue when the tracks of a compilation album are transferred to an iPod (5th generation Nano). Each track appears as a different album, all with the same name.

[lachlan-00 (lachlan-00)]

I use album artist and plugin rhythmbox-fileorganizer.
https://launchpad.net/rb-fileorganizer

With multi artist albums I use "various" as the album artist and when organised files can be set to use album artist if existing and then artist as a fallback.

I haven't updated it in a while but if documented a bit more it would be okay.

Don't have an iPod so I can't comment on that.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Comment from the developer:

"This was fixed ages ago. Enter an album artist for the CD and the
tracks are extracted to a single folder with that name, rather than
separate folders for each artist."

I don't own any CD with which to test this, so can someone else please try it out and report back?

[Dario Ruellan (druellan)]

Ubuntu 12.04.1
Rhythmbox 2.98

Tested with two recopilation CDs and worked as the developer describes.

Test case:
The CD was autodetected with the following values:
Album: Zabriskie Point
Artist: Various Artists

After extraction, the path generated was: Music/Various Artists/Zabriskie Point

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks a lot Dario.

[Dario Ruellan (druellan)]

Just to point out: if you left "Artist" empty, then Rhythmbox creates a folder for every artist on the CD. That means that if the disc match fails, the case explained by the op could happen
There is no clear indication that "Artist" is used as foder name if filled, so the solution is not obvious. Perhaps a tooltip could ease the confusion a bit.