Ah yes, I know what you mean. You have the same problem with same author and different versions of the same song (eg greatest hits, live etc). Bollywood as well. It might be interesting to do that, but I think you have the same problem from freedb as well. They don't have a performing artist either. When you autodetect you'll have to add them yourself.
I'd open up a bugzilla bug on it and see if someone will bite and add the field. sri On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Ron Croonenberg <r...@depauw.edu> wrote: > Well, > > here is why I asked: > > When you rip an album, you don't necessarily end up with with an album with > one artist > > For example the album with song under pressure from Queen and Bowie. After > ripping that CD you basically have two different artist names and all > different track names. > > So you can collect all the tracks by album name, but than there is those > "greates hits", "best of" etc. Also DJ's like Oakenfold a van Dijk have > albums in their name but guests playing. > (there are actually quite a few albums that have the same name) > > > If there was an extra field in rhythmdb then you wouldn't have that problem > (artist, album, performing-artist ?) > > I wrote a 'tree view plugin', that is when I noticed there is no unique way > for a group (album) of songs. An extra field in Rhythmdb would fix that > > Ron > > > > Jonathan Matthew wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Ron Croonenberg <r...@depauw.edu> wrote: >> >>> hello, >>> >>> is it possible/easy to add a field to the rhythmdb that can be use by a >>> plugin (without having to modify a bunch of code in the rhythmbox app)? >>> >> >> Not in general. rhythmdb is not very flexible when it comes to entry >> properties, particularly if you want to attach data to entries from >> the library or other sources. >> >> If you provide more details about what you're trying to do, I can >> probably suggest a way to do it. >> _______________________________________________ >> rhythmbox-devel mailing list >> rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel >> > > -- > ================================================================== > main(p){printf(p,34,p="main(p){printf(p,34,p=%c%s%c,34); }",34); } > ================================================================== > Ron Croonenberg | > | Phone: 1 765 658 4761 > Lab Instructor & | Fax: 1 765 658 4732 > Technology Coordinator | > | > Department of Computer Science | e-mail: r...@depauw.edu > DePauw University | > 275 Julian Science & Math Center | > 602 South College Ave. | > Greencastle, IN 46135 | > ================================================================== > > > _______________________________________________ > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel >
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