You're right. Only thing you're wrong about: Not all the players use it. I don't know ANY linux player using the albumartist tag "correctly" or standard-like.
rhythmbox doesn't - and the developers don't even care commenting on this, the issue is up for years
banshee handles the tag, but you can't use it to browse your music - developers don't care at all, though reported many times
exaile - the same
mpd - still buggy on that
guayadeque - YEAH!, but still in beta and not working correctly on recognizing the tag within the various formats (well: it's a mess within the formats anyway!)
there are more, but I haven't found a singel player for ubuntu able to use the AlbumArtist tag efficiently and I have filed alot of bug and wishlist and forum threads - nobody really is answering to that issue ...
It's like touchning something that shouldn't be touched ...
>> mdshort
You're right. Only thing you're wrong about: Not all the players use it. I don't know ANY linux player using the albumartist tag "correctly" or standard-like.
rhythmbox doesn't - and the developers don't even care commenting on this, the issue is up for years
banshee handles the tag, but you can't use it to browse your music - developers don't care at all, though reported many times
exaile - the same
mpd - still buggy on that
guayadeque - YEAH!, but still in beta and not working correctly on recognizing the tag within the various formats (well: it's a mess within the formats anyway!)
there are more, but I haven't found a singel player for ubuntu able to use the AlbumArtist tag efficiently and I have filed alot of bug and wishlist and forum threads - nobody really is answering to that issue ...
It's like touchning something that shouldn't be touched ...
I don't know it's frustrating ...
cya