Comment 4 for bug 253167

This is definitely a different requirement to bug #228422.

This is about rhythmbox listing the tracks, not about ripping from CD. There is basic need lacking in rhythmbox to list by album artist. Listing by artist shows all the "one-hit-wonders" from compilation albums and it is a PITA.

Fix:

As is:
  Edit / Preferences / Browser views:
   Artists and albums
   Genres and artists
   Genres, artists and albums

Suggested:
  Edit / Preferences / Browser views:
   Artists and albums
   Genres and artists
   Genres, artists and albums
   Genres, album artist and albums << Need this

Why? I have a collection of about 300 CDs all ripped to my server. So, approx 200 artists that I'm actually interested in. But, trying to find my music, rhythmbox shows a list of over 1000 artists. 800 of them I would NEVER seek out to play. It's a real pain!
It gets worse with remixes, where an album artist does remixes, and so it's not a compilation but their own original work in collaboration. E.g. Paul Oakenfold "A lively mind". The Album artist is Paul Oakenfold, because he did the mixing and released the album. But, each artist who wrote the original before it was remixed is listed individually in the "artist" field. Now this is NOT a compilation album, but, trying to play the album can only be done by looking up the album name. So, If I want to play all Paul Oakefold's work back-to back, the only way is to use album artist. Or, corrupt my ID3 tags as a workaround. Which I don't want to do because it works perfectly on other players.