forwarded 425113 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310154 thanks
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 10:22 +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > The Jamendo genre field seems to be completely free-form for the album > author, so in the Genre section of Rhythmbox, it now shows: > > "Electro-Dub" > "Electro-dub" > "Electro Dub" > "Electro-dub " (Yes, that's an extra space) > "électro-dub" > > for a total of 1748 genres, with many doubles like this. Most genres have > only one artist in it (there are 2178 artists, or about 1.25 artists per > genre). > > It would already help a lot if: > - Whitespace was normalized > - Case was ignored > - Characters like - and , would be treated as space. > This would reduce the list above to two. > > OTOH, it seems the Jamendo site doesn't do very much with the genre, but > instead uses tags for organizing the albums. > > Maybe the Jamendo plugin should use the tags instead of the genre? Hi, I very much agree, the genre field is basically useless, especially so for Jamendo and similar places. The good news is that Rhythmbox have the basics for tags, so I hope it will be used in the future. In the mean time, I have marked this bug as forwarded to the upstream developers, you may wish to subscribe here, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310154 -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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