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artemanufrij / playmymusic

An elementary OS app
http://anufrij.org/melody
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"Album Artist" field missing in album properties #145

Open aadilayub opened 5 years ago

aadilayub commented 5 years ago

There are many albums that are compilations of tracks by many artists. Normally, music players handle this by having a separate field for the author of the track (Artist), and a separate field for the author of the album (Album Artist).

Here is an example of such an album. You can see in MusicBrainz editor that the "Artist" field varies across all 9 tracks, but the "Album Artist" field is uniform across the album (Various Artists).

screenshot from 2018-10-22 20 04 05

Here's the same album opened in Melody:

screenshot from 2018-10-22 20 06 40

You can see that the album has been broken into 9 albums by different artists, and that Melody has fetched incorrect album art for some of them.

artemanufrij commented 5 years ago

Hey @aadilayub thanks for feedback. I will check it out.

PS: you can merge all the albums if you press "ctrl" and select all the albums you want to merge. then right click an choose "merge x albums"

mohataj commented 3 years ago

please group by Compilation TCMP tag, too