Improve support for compilation albums

[c12four]

Hello, I have a small issue with G4Music and I will try to explain it with an example and a few screenshots.

By "compilation album", I mean a collection of individual music soundtracks with the same "Album" and "Album Artist" tags but different "Artist" tags.

For example, the following image shows a compilation of 9 soundtracks with "Ambient Mix " as the "Album" tag and "Various Artist" as the "Album Artist" tag. ( The application in the screenshot is EarTag )

When I load this album in the Lollypop music player, it correctly shows all 9 soundtracks under a single album :

When I load this album in cmus music player, it also correctly shows all 9 soundtacks under a single album :

When I load this folder in G4Music player, the application splits the compilation album into different parts unlike Lollypop and cmus :

I think this is because G4Music also considers the "Release date" tag when grouping albums together.

Would it be possible for G4Music to behave similarly to Lollypop and cmus as shown above?

I hope I was able to make the issue clear to understand.

[neithern]

It seems some people has different request: https://gitlab.gnome.org/neithern/g4music/-/issues/97

[c12four]

I see. Perhaps both requests can be fulfilled? The "Artists" view can have the albums sorted by date but a compilation album can be treated in some special manner since a compilation may contain a collection of tracks with different release dates. Perhaps something like "Various Artists" view from cmus would be easy to implement?

Although if my request seems too complicated then feel free to close to this issue :)

[liz-desartiges]

I do have a similar issue I have 2 EPs that incompensate songs published at different date which makes the album view messy :