I have recently started using MP3TAG to remove ID3 tags that were inadvertently added to some of my Flac files. I have a couple of questions after reviewing the results. When viewing the resulting files in MP3TAG the TAG field says FLAC(FLAC), I believe this means there are no more ID3 tags. The…

[image] borgesp: I believe this means there are no more ID3 tags That is as it is supposed to be: flac should have only flac tags. [image] borgesp: I understand that I can use MP3TAG to manually (or automatically) make an entry in the Album Artist field. How does MP3TAG store this? Is th…

Thanks, you have cleared up several of my questions. I only have three entries in the mapping options and none of them include Album Artist or ALBUMARTIST. My confusion is when I view the file in MP3TAG there is a field called Album Artist (not ALBUMARTIST). If this is not a valid field why is it …

[image] borgesp: MP3TAG there is a field called Album Artist (not ALBUMARTIST) The column headers are a freely definable label. Right-click on the column header to see the column definition - it should show %albumartist% for both field and value. [image] borgesp: If this is not a valid …

Thanks once again, I think I'm almost there. I tried the Alt-T on another example: [image] If I followed you all the information shown here should be from a vorbis comment. Once again the Album Artist field confuses me. It has an entry here but not in the file view. I'm assuming that is expected …

Just like I assumed: there is a field ALBUM ARTIST where it should be called ALBUMARTIST. You could try this for a test file: Select the file Use Convert>Tag-Tag for field ALBUMARTIST Format String: %album artist% This copies the contents of ALBUM ARTIST to the field ALBUMARTIST - and that fiel…

I think what you are telling me is that the software that wrote the metadata wrote to a field called ALBUM ARTIST when is should have written to ALBUMARTIST?

As already stated, ALBUMARTIST is standard nowadays. Just be aware that ALBUM ARTIST (and ALBUM SORT, ARTIST SORT etc) used to be common for FLAC/Vorbis, and is still used and sometimes even required. I liked this approach for its simplicity, but because some computer geeks fear the blank spaces, A…

[image] vilsen: Starting from scratch though, you should use ALBUMARTIST (unless you encounter problems, which should be rare). Here is a thread that discusses more all the virtues and drawbacks of the different naming schemes and how to cope with them: [image] [X] FLAC Album…

Album Artist Confusion

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ohrenkino March 5, 2020, 6:14am 10

Here is a thread that discusses more all the virtues and drawbacks of the different naming schemes and how to cope with them: