Description of problem: (This is essentially the issue from GNOME Bug #570298; and for tracking its status in the Fedora package.) Banshee currently handles automatic file/directory renaming for most albums quite well when they are of a single artist. But when there is a compilation or album with more than one artist, the album is split into directories based on each individual artist. For example, with the 'Artist/Album/Number. Title' scheme: Music/ArtistFoo/AlbumName/01. Track One.flac Music/ArtistBar/AlbumName/02. Track Two.flac Music/ArtistBar/AlbumName/03. Track Three.flac Music/ArtistBaz/AlbumName/04. Track Four.flac This was recently fixed in the 1.6.0 Beta 1 release with a patch that changes this handling to use the Album Artist for organizing the files instead of individual Track Artist data. With the new Banshee, the above would be organized by the compilation artist, and the individual Track Artist data would remain in the file metadata for searching/sorting/etc within Banshee: Music/CoolNewAlbum/01. Track One.flac Music/CoolNewAlbum/02. Track Two.flac Music/CoolNewAlbum/03. Track Three.flac Music/CoolNewAlbum/04. Track Four.flac "Pristine" Banshee 1.4.3 does not have this support. This bug is a request to backport the patch to Fedora's build. This changed happened in git commit 6258481cb2d232d29bee947d9a3f6b87534bb348 (linked in the URL field, and below). While I might normally frown upon patching heavily, I feel that this request is very reasonable for two primary reasons: The first being that this fix is already in the upstream source tree and would likely be part of the next bug-fix 1.4 update or 1.6 Beta. The second reason is that, as can be seen from the above comparison, this significantly improve the "out of the box" Banshee experience, as it tunes Banshee's behavior closer to what one would expect (e.g., they are on-disk in 1 directory per album, rather than many subdirectories on a per-Track Artist basis). The change is: [1] http://git.gnome.org/cgit/banshee/commit/?id=6258481cb2d232d29bee947d9a3f6b87534bb348
A better patch (since that git commit is displayed ignoring the whitespace) is at the GNOME bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=127968&action=view For what it's worth, I've been using this patch against Fedora's stock 1.4.3-4 build for the path month or so, since reporting this bug; and haven't seen any problems caused by it.
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