Idea
#9824: Group artists and albums under "Other" when there is only one track in Rhythmbox
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Written by deadowl the 13 Jun 08 at 00:49.
Category: Multimedia.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
The title isn't the exact idea, but it's the basis of the idea.
The most annoying thing when browsing through artists and albums when using ANY music player is that the list is polluted with artists and albums from which one has very few tracks. It makes browsing for an artist or album increasingly pointless as one's music collection grows, and so people just end up using the search function exclusively. I believe that there is still hope for browsing however.
This is what the beginning of my Artist list looks like in Rhythmbox:
All 280 Artists (1884)
Artist 1 (11)
Artist 2 (1)
Artist 3 (1)
Artist 4 (1)
Artist 5 (23)
Artist 6 (1)
Artist 7 (1)
Artist 8 (1)
Artist 9 (3)
(...)
Up to G in my list of Artists, I can count over 50 artists from which I only have one track. Most of these are from compilation discs, online music stores, or are free promotional singles. It makes browsing by artist a nightmare.
The same is true for albums, though not quite as horrible.
I feel it would make sense to group artists 2-4 and 6-8 in "Other" artists at the very end of the list of artists in Rhythmbox.
One may also argue that Artist 9 should be thrown in as well. The maximum number of tracks by album or artist needed to group them into the "Other" category would ideally be configurable.
It would probably be most effective if this was done using tree expansion, such that the search bar maintains its usefulness in looking through all artists and albums.
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deadowl wrote on the 13 Jun 08 at 00:52
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Forgot to add, there should also be a threshold number of artists with less than n tracks or number of albums with less than n tracks within what is visible (including filtered results) to be categorized into other.
For instance, If I was looking for an artist from which I have albums and one single, that single can be listed as it's own album. I absolutely don't care if it's just one or two.
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francois wrote on the 13 Jun 08 at 09:37
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wow, great
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shovelhead wrote on the 13 Jun 08 at 11:07
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Just do it yourself. I don't see why the artist and title recognition should be less precise than it is.
A single from album X will still be a "one of a kind" - that's the right way to classify the stuff.
On the other hand, there is absolutely nothing that can keep you from creating the "Other" or "Sampler" artist yourself and spend some minutes, dragging the orphant tracks into that folder.
voted down
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kenneth.venken wrote on the 13 Jun 08 at 11:31
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Yes, but why do it yourself if software can clearly do this very easily. Perhaps an option somewhere to turn it on and off?
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deadowl wrote on the 13 Jun 08 at 22:02
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If you change the artist tag to "Other", then you can no longer look them up by name. Same for albums.
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nevermind85 wrote on the 14 Jun 08 at 04:13
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I don't have this problem because if the album has several artists (ie: a soundtrack), I simply tag the mp3s like this:
Title: Artist - Song Name
Artist: Soundtrack
Album: BlaBlaBla (movie name)
This can change, hence I have several other "dummy" artists on my mp3 collection; examples go from Compositor's Name, Music Genre, Special Collection's Name, etc.
Anyway, +1
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same wrote on the 6 Aug 08 at 09:22
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I absolutely support this proposal. It's really anoying to search my album collections due to all the album-entries which contain mostly only one or two titles which came along with a soundtrack.
The same for artists.
+1
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tommynz1975 wrote on the 29 Aug 08 at 10:49
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now IF rythme box is setup like the rest of ubuntu as I understand it to be....
the group(s) artist is just an association...
IE, you could view your music by artist folders
OR Type of Music folder. pop, rock, country, r&b
OR Gender, female, male.
the list goes on....
your music is not reproduced but viewable in the format you want to view it in??
so IF I had 50 albums each of 1 artist but was 4 types of music.. I could have my music displayed in 4 folders
Because I choose to view it that way..
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abhiroopb wrote on the 3 Sep 08 at 02:41
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I was thinking something along the lines of Amarok's Various Artists feature.
Basically I used Amarok only because of that. But it was slow and bloated and had a million features I hardly ever used. Therefore, I thought I'd use Rhythmbox.
Its great, I've got everything just the way I like it. EXCEPT the various artists.
Basically in my Music folder I have all songs organised like so:
Artist Name - Album Name
That's it, now if I happen to have an album with different artists (say a Soundtrack or a compilation album) I put it under Various Artists - Album Name. So, in Amarok this shows up as "Various Artists", under which I can see all the albums and the artist name is given.
The useful thing about this is that scrolling on the iPod I can see the Various Artist albums as "compilations" and I don't have a million ONE song artist.
In fact for some soundtrack albums I don't even know who the artist's are so I have numerous artists on my iPod who I don't know anything about.
I don't mind if an artist as a single or if I have an artist with one song. So, to take the example given...
All 280 Artists (1884)
Artist 1 (11)
Artist 2 (1)
Artist 3 (1)
Artist 4 (1)
Artist 5 (23)
Artist 6 (1)
Artist 7 (1)
Artist 8 (1)
Artist 9 (3)
(...)
I wouldn't want ANY of these grouped together under other...It would solely depend on the content. For example Chumbawamba have basically one hit that I like, but I don't mind seeing that artist in my "Artist's" list.
However, if some random band did a song on a soundtrack for a movie I'd like that grouped under various artists.
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