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piedro
Asked: 2010-10-12 12:30:02 +0800 CST

How to browse by albumartist with rhythmbox or any other gnome musicplayer?

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Rhythmbox offers (as it should by now!) the metatag "albumartist" in addition to "artist". But I don't see any way to browse by this property.

The offered views are: Browse by "artist - album", "genres - artist", "genre - artist - album".

How can another view like "genre - albumartist - album" be added? (this is the way itunes sorts, makes a lot of sense if you have about 220 compilation albums with a lot of "one hit wonder"-artists!)

Can't be that difficult, can it?

In case it's impossible, - is it possible to completely replace rhythmbox with another application that's able to do the above (which one?)?

thx for reading, piedro

rhythmbox

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  1. Best Answer

    This is a bug in Rhythmbox.

    As for alternatives, BansheeInstall Banshee is very popular, so you could give this a try. I don't use it so I can't give you my experience of it but I hear it has the feature you want.

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  2. CoverArt Browser

    The Rhythmbox plugin CoverArt Browser provides for this ability - to browse by Album Artist:

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    This is in a tree view - the first column shows Album Artist Pictures - the branch shows the albums for that artist.

    The plugin also provides for the ability to filter by genre/decades/ratings/track artists

    To install, use my PPA and the package rhythmbox-plugin-coverart-browser as described in the linked Q&A:

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