After stripping out the ALBUMARTIST and ALBUM ARTIST tags with MP3Tag, I
noticed that I had another artist field in mp3 only tags called BAND. I
removed that as well. Then I tried it again, and it was a little
better, but still several hundred artists are gone (800 about). I then
looked at my
broth420;147914 Wrote:
I do have Various Artists in the Album Artist section, for albums
that were compliations albums (like AM Gold 1969, movie soundtracks,
etc).
Do I need to take out the tag, and if so, how. Just leave the section
blank? Or do I need to reconvert the entire lot.
Remove
broth420;148017 Wrote:
Is there a good place to go for instructions in the use of that program.
I am a little confused as to what I need to do.
If you're referring to Mp3tag, take a look here:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?Mp3tagGuide
It's not specific to this particular problem,
Roy;147922 Wrote:
In your flac files create a tag called wm/albumartist and populate it
with the artist name
Where did you find this solution? I've never heard of that tag before.
What file types do you use?
-s.
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slimpy;148134 Wrote:
Where did you find this solution? I've never heard of that tag before.
What file types do you use?
Looks like a Windows Media-specific tag.
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[shabbs]
*MP3s:* 67.2 GB / 9,653 songs and growing! | *MP3 ripper:* 'EAC'
(http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/) 0.95b4
to get this to work. my album count, artist count, song count was
accurate in 6.3. Now, in 6.5.1, my library is jacked. I would like to
get it to work correctly. I ripped all albums using Easy CD DA. I
modified the tags either with Media Monkey or Tag Rename. I do have
Various Artists in
Broth
Like you I have been struggling with this one since 6.5
I stumbled on this solution which might work for you
In your flac files create a tag called wm/albumartist and populate it
with the artist name - I used MP3tag really easy to do.
Do a complete clear and rescan and see if it solves
Is there a good place to go for instructions in the use of that program.
I am a little confused as to what I need to do.
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shabbs;145819 Wrote:
So, then the guys over at HA are wrong?
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Encouraged_Tag_Standards#ALBUM_ARTIST
No offense, but have you looked at the title? Foobar2000:Encouraged
Tag Standards
We're not dealing with Foobar here. I merely
shabbs;145918 Wrote:
I've been trying to isolate what's up with the Artist count in SS and
where it pulls the data for it from. Part of that search has led me to
this Album Artist tag (or TPE2 or Band depending on the file
format). Some new apps (WMP11b and iTunes7) seem to be populating it
Shabba I have great sympathy with your position.
Only by experimenting and asking questions have I begun to understand
how SS handles tag information, particularly in relation to the 'Album
Artist' tag.
I also think that there is an issue with how SS handles this
information specifically with
Iznotgold;146006 Wrote:
I then added 'various artists' using the 'Album Artist' tag to each file
and did a clear - rescan. The result was that SS seemed to ignore the
'album artist' tag for the mp3 file and it could still be found using
either 'Artist', 'Album' or 'Track.
Did you enable the
Iznotgold;145618 Wrote:
...or is their an unexplained behaviour with initial search results
dependant on the behaviour settings selected under SS - any thoughts?
Looks like this is indeed a bug. I think that most people with 'List
all compilation Albums under each artist' don't browse Various
Thanks Slimpy,
I have filed a bug report...at least I'm not going mad. Thanks for all
your time...it's been appreciated!
Cheers
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kweller;145493 Wrote:
My MP3s are correctly tagged - the artist field contains the name of the
artist. The album artist field contains 'Various Artists' for
compilations and the name of the recording artist for the rest.
I was under the impression that the Album Artist tag should ONLY be
used
shabbs;145765 Wrote:
I was under the impression that the Album Artist tag should ONLY be
used for compilations that have various artists and that it should be
populated with the value Various Artists for all the tracks on that
album (or whatever value you want, it just has to be the same
I don't like the idea of making adjustments to one program because
another program has messed up the data the program works with.
Slimserver doesn't give priority to the album artist for
non-compilation albums. What you're seeing is an unexpected behaviour
due to the messed up information in your
Of course you're right...and I am slowly going through my tagsbut a
quick short-term fix would have been to be able to get SS to ignore the
'album artist' tags...I suspect I'm not alone in experiencing unexpected
behaviour since upgrading to 6.5
I'm still not sure why SS gives priority to
Slimpy - thanks for sticking with me on this one.
As previously said I'd had problems caused by 'Album Artist' tags being
automatically updated by WMP (now disabled option)atributing tracks to
compilation albums. I've subsequently gone through the collection
removing this inaccurate data. But I
slimpy;145277 Wrote:
I don't like the idea of making adjustments to one program because
another program has messed up the data the program works with.
Slimserver doesn't give priority to the album artist for
non-compilation albums. What you're seeing is an unexpected behaviour
due to the
kweller;145493 Wrote:
My MP3s are correctly tagged - the artist field contains the name of the
artist. The album artist field contains 'Various Artists' for
compilations and the name of the recording artist for the rest.
Why do you set the album artist to 'Various Artists'? I don't see any
Do you have List albums by band selected in Server settings - Behavior
- Compilations?
What happens if you change it to List albums by all artists for that
album?
-s.
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Ben Sandee;145529 Wrote:
I use this feature to categorize all soundtracks into a separate
VA-type
folder. I set the TPE2 to Film Soundtracks, which creates an artist
with
this name in the artist list.
Fair enough.
Do you see the same behaviour Kevin describes?
-s.
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slimpy
I wonder if the designers at SD have considered having both AlbumArtist
and Artist (track artist) in the browse and search menus. This would
solve nearly all the artist listing dislikes that people experience.
R
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