>i believe there is no album artist tag existing in the id3 spec that >itunes uses, so they decided to just use the band tag... > iTunes still seems to work if I set Album Artist, and then manually remove the BAND tag. ie. iTunes still displays the ALBUMARTIST tag. It may go wrong if I delete the music from iTunes and add the files back into the library again though? Or maybe the problem is that external to iTunes I may be using a different ID3 spec (I edit tags using mp3Tag, which is set to write ID3v2.3 UTF-16).
>did you actually get multiple artist tags to work at all in itunes (if so how?) > No, I haven't played around any more with that problem yet, as Slimserver seems to be broken too (and there hasn't been any feedback to my post or bug report yet). I think iTunes just displays the first artist, so albums that have an album artist with maybe one track featuring a guest artist will probably just show all tracks as being by the main artist. I can live with that in iTunes, as I only use iTunes for syncing to an iPod. I was contemplating changing my artist tags to include the album artist as the first artist for the other cases. >using a batch file, it was relatively simple to use itunesencode to >convert my entire flac library to m4a with the correct tags (minus the >album artist :( - which itunesencode doesn't support). and keep the two >libraries 'in sync' I was thinking of doing a similar thing to keep two libraries, but I didn't want to duplicate half my library. For now, I will simply convert single flac albums to mp3 and load into iTunes and sync to iPod, then delete the temporary mp3 tracks. I found that Anapod Explorer can copy tracks onto an iPod, and it can transcode other formats, including FLAC. However, it appears to always transcode FLAC->WAV, so it uses up loads of space. Phil _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
