>I have just re-ripped Supernatural using the latest dBPoweramp (V13 >Reference) and this automatically sets Compilation=0 which is helpful. >It also sets Album Artist = Santana > I think you'll find that dbPowerAmp stores Album Artist in a band tag.
I have dbPowerAmp (don't use the ripper, only use it for converting FLAC to mp3 for transfer to portable music player). I just tried ripping a couple of tracks in dbPowerAmp, and set the Album Artist to "Test". I then loaded the songs into Foobar music player, and looked at the tag properties. It says it has stored the tags in id3v2 format. It reports the following: Artist Name : Pink Floyd Track Title : Careful With That Axe, Eugene Album Title : Ummagumma Date : 1969 Genre : Progressive Rock Composer : Performer : Album Artist : Track Number : 2 Total Tracks : 4 Disc Number : 1 Total Discs : 2 Comment : <BAND> : Test Note that "Album Artist" is blank, and a custom tag "BAND" has been used to store the value "Test". FLAC tag format can support proper Album Artist tags, but id3v2 was written by dbPowerAmp. The tags were not readable in my usual tagging app Mp3Tag. It said the tag format was id3v2, but couldn't read the tags. Maybe the tag format and mapping of fields to tags is configurable in dbPowerAmp - I don't know, this was using the default settings, as I've never used it before and haven't changed any configuration options. I tried ripping to mp3 format too, and it stored id3v2 format tags. The "Album Artist" was stored in TPE2 (BAND). You could confirm that SqueezeCenter is reading your tag as Band instead of Album Artist by browsing to a song in the webUI. It should list the tag information it has read. It will be saying Band: xxx instead of Album Artist: xxx. >But SC still lists all of the contributing artists, which is not what I want. You need to set an Album Artist tag that SqueezeCenter understands, or if you have SqueezeCenter v7.1 there is now a new option to treat TPE2 as Album Artist, instead of Band. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
