Comment 1 for bug 232901

AFAIK Banshee parse id3 and other metadata of your audio medias... Elisa can do the same and you can browse your music by artist/album using a plugin called meta_fs. You just need to enable the media_manager in your ~/.elisa/elisa.conf file, just like this:

[media_manager]
enable_cache = 1

We already thought about reusing other software databases, but it would be far more interesting to design a Desktop agnostic database schema that all software could use. Metadata parsing is supported by Beagle and Tracker, but these are (AFAIK) Linux-only solutions. Here we do our best to design a cross-platform mediacenter application, so this problem is not trivial to solve.