Hello! This is my first post at this forum. Going straight to matter - I'm a user of foobar2000 player. And as far as I am concerned the prefered tag for indicating an album artist is %album artist%. However I use mp3tag for a long time and hundreds of albums are tagged using %band% tag. What is t…

Hi, Basically; %band% = MP3 %album artist% = FLAC, etc. mp3tag can seamlessly handle this if using different formats, there is a thread about it, but should be in the documentation. Daz

Can you give more feedback please?

Thanks a lot! But how about foobar2000? I heard it prefers tag ALBUM ARTIST. Don't know why... So how about adding both? Does it make sense? Edit: I'm considering to move along to ALBUM ARTIST with my MP3s - Winamp also supports it.

pmj1989: Thanks a lot! But how about foobar2000? I heard it prefers tag ALBUM ARTIST. Don't know why... So how about adding both? Does it make sense? Edit: I'm considering to move along to ALBUM ARTIST with my MP3s - Winamp also supports it. BUMP!!! From what I've noticed (compatibility)…

WMP also uses BAND (TPE2) on mp3. But foobar writes by default ID3v2.4 tags which WMP will not read at all. When you add %album artist% in foobar2000 it writes a TXXX frame with the description "Album artist" BAND (TPE2) is the most popular. ALBUMARTIST is mainly used on flac.

@dano Thanks for the information! pmj1989: And supposing I'll decide to keep more than one tag field. Is there any method to make Mp3tag write them at once? (not using Action to copy one field's content to another)

All my FLAC files have the album artist tagged as "ALBUMARTIST" is there a way to batch convert these to "ALBUM ARTIST" for foobar2000? I did have a quick read around but I couldn't find a definite answer. Thanks.

create an action. Select "format value". Field is ALBUM ARTIST and format string is %albumartist% This will copy all the values currently in ALBUMARTIST into a new tag caled ALBUM ARTIST.

[image] garym: create an action. Select "format value". Field is ALBUM ARTIST and format string is %albumartist% This will copy all the values currently in ALBUMARTIST into a new tag caled ALBUM ARTIST. Works a treat. Thank you and happy new year. :slight_smile:

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%band% vs. %album artist%

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DazBYorks November 23, 2009, 11:17pm 4

Hi,

Please read this.

Daz