i probably should have stated some things... i ripped ALL my CDs using EAC and lame 3.96 or higher.
i think i might have only used ID3v1.0 or v1.1 on some early CDs, but most have v2.3 i use winamp to edit my tags, it does it quick and nicely, AND it does v1 and v2 together. while some early few seem to not have v2 tags, i have yet to see any disagreement between a v1 and v2 tag. and i also installed mp3tag, but i haven't used it much. i have yet to see any "messed up" tags in it though, or in winamp. i'm not saying all my tags are perfect, but i just haven't seen anything too crazy in them. snarlydwarf;178467 Wrote: > Sounds like your tags are seriously messed up. > > Multiple tags aare used for Artist: Composer, Performer, AlbumArtist... > If you have a song like: > NAME=Let It Be > ALBUM=Beatles Covers > PERFORMER=Some Cover Band > ALBUMARTIST=The Beatles > COMPOSER=John Lennon > COMPOSER=Paul McCartney > > Then, yes, that will be filed under the Beatles, Lennon, McCartney and > Some Cover Band..... but that's what your tags say. ok, so i first looked at this album with winamps 'view file info' feature. in winamp, it had both v1 and v2 tags that seemingly agreed. composer and album artist were blank on some tracks, not blank on others. so is that why one CD by one artist will say its by 5 artists? seems dumb to me... why would composer or any other tag, be conflated with the 'artist' tag? artist should only relate to the artist tag, not other tags. to relate it to composer is confusing. if you want to know compsers, pull composers. is there a list of all the various tags that are conflated with artist? > As for truncatingg album titles: are you using id3v1? Check your tags: > id3v2 has no length limit, nor do Vorbis comments in flacs... Again, > this sounds like inconsistent tagging. good call, so far it is v2 tags missing. very strange, as there are v2 tags for other CDs of the same box set. but def not a SS issue. > Did you read the Wiki page on tagging? Use of ALBUMARTIST will let you > put the Billy Joel album under Billy Joel, even if you have > contributors. cool, i will try that, and let you know if it worked for me. still, there are a lot of issues i listed in the first post with how SS handles tags and tabulates things that aren't explained in what you said here. thx, -mdw -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.5.2 (beta!?) - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32516 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
