Here is how my workflow has evolved over the years as far as editing tags: I update the Album, Artist, Genre, Title, Track and Year tags with MP3Tag I delete all other tags with MP3Tag I use Foobar2000 to scan and update tags for ReplayGain I use MusicIP to scan and update the tags for Music IP
Doug On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 4:30 PM, pjs < pjs.58ka7b1330291...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com> wrote: > > OK, thanks to everyone for the really instructive responses. I now > understand why I wasn't seeing the song artist being updated. It was > the ol' Artist vs Album Artist issue. I had changed the Artist in the > metadata, but I guess the "key" that's used when you browse "music by > artist" is the Album Artist, not the Artist. > > Actually, that brings up a good point. If we have a compilation > album: > > Album: No Alternative > 01. Superdeformed (Artist = Matthew Sweet, Album Artist = Various > Artists) > 02. For All to See (Artist = Buffalo Tom, Album Artist = Various > Artists) > ... > 19. Verse Chorus Verse (Artist = Nirvana, Album Artist = Various > Artists) > > If I browse the Squeezebox by Artist, I definitely do not want to see a > million "Various Artists" under "V". So I think we'd want the > Squeezebox to display "Artist", not "Album Artist" in this case. > > If we have an artist who has recorded albums under different names: > > Surfing On Sine Waves (Artist = Aphex Twin, Album Artist = Polygon > Window) > Analogue Bubblebath 3 (Artist = Aphex Twin, Album Artist = AFX) > Joyrex J9ii (Artist = Aphex Twin, Album Artist = Caustic > Window) > Rushup Edge (Artist = Aphex Twin, Album Artist = The Tuss) > Richard D. James Album (Artist = Aphex Twin, Album Artist = Aphex > Twin) > > I think I'd prefer to see all this under Aphex Twin, the Artist, since > this makes navigation with the Squeezebox remote much easier. > > In both cases where there's a distinction between Artist and Album > Artist, I think I prefer Artist. Is there a way to make the importer > use the Artist as the key and not Album Artist? > > Other for our own personal knowledge, is there ever a time when Album > Artist is useful for tagging music? I really don't care about the fact > that, say, an album was put out by "Frank Black" or "Frank Black and the > Catholics", although I *do* care if it's "Frank Black" or "Pixies". > > I know this is pretty anal, and I apologize, but I'm sure many of you > must be as anal as me with tagging your music. :-) > > Thanks! > Pete > > > -- > pjs > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > pjs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32020 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93812 > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > discuss@lists.slimdevices.com > http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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