I've never really had a very clear idea about the subtleties of tagging
- compilations, multi-disc sets etc - so I thought I'd have a go at
figuring out one or two things with some simple tests. I set up a small
test rig, using a pCP set up to run LMS, and with a 'third partition' to
hold a small amount of music. And already I've found some behaviour
which I don't understand.
The majority of my collection is in the form of whole album FLACs with
separate CUE sheets. In theory this allows me to make a simple text
edit to the cue sheet to change any tags, without needing a dedicated
tagging program. As an aside, I've just noticed that my ripping
program, XLD on my Macbook, is also putting a few basic tags into the
FLAC file, so that's one thing I want to put right - my feeling is that
the FLAC files should be tag-less so that everything comes from the CUE
sheet. But that issue is not related to the behaviour I'm seeing.
Specifically, I'm wondering about the 'Album Artist' information.
I started with a double CD of Phil Spector tracks - "The Essential Phil
Spector". I thought this would be a good choice for my tests because
it's a multi-disc set, and there are numerous artists across the 34
tracks. None of the individual tracks has 'Phil Spector' as the artist,
but nevertheless I'd like the whole album of 2 CDs to show up when I
search on 'Phil Spector'. The CUE sheet produced by XLD for the first
CD looks like this:
Code:
--------------------
TITLE "The Essential Phil Spector"
PERFORMER "Phil Spector"
REM DISCNUMBER 1
REM TOTALDISCS 2
REM DISCID F00A7111
FILE "The Essential Phil Spector Disc 1.flac" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "To Know Him Is To Love Him"
PERFORMER "The Teddy Bears"
ISRC USQX91101151
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Corrine, Corrina"
PERFORMER "Ray Peterson"
ISRC USMC10112302
INDEX 00 02:23:13
INDEX 01 02:24:63
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE "Spanish Harlem"
PERFORMER "Ben E. King"
ISRC USAT20202648
INDEX 00 05:04:45
INDEX 01 05:06:33
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE "Pretty Little Angel Eyes"
PERFORMER "Curtis Lee"
ISRC USCA20802803
INDEX 00 07:59:62
INDEX 01 08:01:47
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE "Every Breath I Take"
PERFORMER "Gene Pitney"
ISRC USACU0500064
INDEX 00 10:47:07
INDEX 01 10:49:48
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE "I Love How You Love Me"
PERFORMER "The Paris Sisters"
ISRC USQX91101152
INDEX 00 13:32:64
INDEX 01 13:34:62
TRACK 07 AUDIO
TITLE "There's No Other Like My Baby"
PERFORMER "The Crystals"
ISRC USQX91100105
INDEX 00 15:40:18
INDEX 01 15:41:65
TRACK 08 AUDIO
TITLE "Uptown"
PERFORMER "The Crystals"
ISRC USQX91100107
INDEX 00 18:11:46
INDEX 01 18:13:25
TRACK 09 AUDIO
TITLE "He's A Rebel"
PERFORMER "The Crystals"
ISRC USQX91100111
INDEX 00 20:34:42
INDEX 01 20:36:00
TRACK 10 AUDIO
TITLE "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"
PERFORMER "Bob B. Soxx And The Blue Jeans"
ISRC USQX91000370
INDEX 00 23:06:67
INDEX 01 23:08:69
TRACK 11 AUDIO
TITLE "Puddin' N' Tain"
PERFORMER "The Alley Cats"
ISRC USQX91000372
INDEX 00 25:59:61
INDEX 01 26:00:65
TRACK 12 AUDIO
TITLE "He's Sure The Boy I Love"
PERFORMER "The Crystals"
ISRC USQX91100115
INDEX 00 28:49:02
INDEX 01 28:50:58
TRACK 13 AUDIO
TITLE "Why Do Lovers Break Each Others Hearts?"
PERFORMER "Bob B. Soxx And The Blue Jeans"
ISRC USSM10906870
INDEX 00 31:34:19
INDEX 01 31:36:67
TRACK 14 AUDIO
TITLE "(Today I Met) The Boy I'm Gonna Marry"
PERFORMER "Darlene Love"
ISRC USSM10906444
INDEX 00 34:25:42
INDEX 01 34:27:67
TRACK 15 AUDIO
TITLE "Da Doo Ron Ron"
PERFORMER "The Crystals"
ISRC USQX91100116
INDEX 00 37:13:71
INDEX 01 37:16:36
TRACK 16 AUDIO
TITLE "Not Too Young To Get Married"
PERFORMER "Bob B. Soxx And The Blue Jeans"
ISRC USSM10906871
INDEX 00 39:36:45
INDEX 01 39:37:56
TRACK 17 AUDIO
TITLE "Wait Til' My Bobby Gets Home"
PERFORMER "Darlene Love"
ISRC USSM10906445
INDEX 00 42:07:37
INDEX 01 42:08:49
--------------------
Quite naturally, each track has its own 'PERFORMER' tag, and the overall
album also has a 'PERFORMER' tag which is there because I manually
filled in the 'Album Artist' in the metadata editor before the disc was
ripped. The cue sheet seems to be handled without error by LMS, and all
the tracks look correct when viewed in LMS. I have LMS configured to
'Use two separate lists for Album Artists and All Artists', and when I
click on 'All Artists' all the individual performers are listed,
including Phil Spector.
If I drill down into a single track, the info looks correct. The track
is listed with its own details, but also with an Album Artist of Phil
Spector.
'[image:
http://www.cjh.me.uk/MyPhotobucket/cache/RPi/Track%20Info_480.jpg]'
(http://www.cjh.me.uk/MyPhotobucket/albums/RPi/Track%20Info.jpg)
But if look under the top level 'Album Artists' in LMS, it says it's
empty.
'[image:
http://www.cjh.me.uk/MyPhotobucket/cache/RPi/Album%20Artists_480.jpg]'
(http://www.cjh.me.uk/MyPhotobucket/albums/RPi/Album%20Artists.jpg)
So why does LMS recognise that each track has an Album Artist, but then
tell me I don't have any album artists?
Hmm - I have a couple of images inserted at the end of this message, but
they're not showing up. But you get the picture :)
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