Req: Make Album Artist more flexible

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I love the fact that rubyripper supports the Album Artist tag.

However it only fills it automatically and that only if the Artist name is
set to "Various"

The Album Artist "Standard" (there really is none) says that this is only
ONE use case of the tag.

Think about an album containing 10 tracks of one artist, but 2 are from
another artist. You would normally want to have it sorted by artist 1.
Still you want all tracks of the cd to belong together, which is why you
need the album artist tag. In that case you would want it to be "Artist 1" tho.

So long text, short request: Support Album Artist in general. If the user
leaves it empty, dont use it.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rasi1...@googlemail.com on 15 Jan 2009 at 9:48

[GoogleCodeExporter]

looking at it now, the GUI already supports to mark every CD as Various 
Artist.. CLI
doesnt.

Anyway... this still leaves the desire to fill the Album Artist tag with a 
custom name...

Original comment by rasi1...@googlemail.com on 15 Jan 2009 at 9:51

[GoogleCodeExporter]

After making sure the disc is marked as various artists in the gtk2 gui, the 
name of
the Artist field in Disc info will be passed to albumartist. There is no name
restriction here as far as I consider. You can easily verify this.

So that leaves only one thing open. You should be able to mark a disc as various
artist in cli mode. Is that correct?

Original comment by rubyripp...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2009 at 5:57

• Changed state: Accepted

[GoogleCodeExporter]

yea.. thats correct.. i realised it while writing my request that its more 
about a
cli-only request...

Original comment by rasi1...@googlemail.com on 15 Jan 2009 at 7:14

[GoogleCodeExporter]

It should be fixed in latest git. See
http://github.com/rubyripperdev/rubyripper/commits/master

You can set it by editing the disc info.

Original comment by rubyripp...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2009 at 8:08

• Changed state: Fixed