Here's a weird one: when searching for discogs metadata on a CD set (George Szell Complete Columbia Recordings) discogs doesn't list each track as a unique number, it combines them into a composition. This carries over into mp3tag, leading to very incorrect results.
For example, this is the way discogs lists the tracks of the first CD of the set:
|CD 1-1 → 1-5 ||Slavonic Dances Op. 46, No. 1, 3, 8 & Op. 72, No. 2, 7
|CD 1-6 → 1-9 ||String Quartet No. 1 "From My Life"
This is actually a total of 9 tracks, but mp3tag only sees it as 2 tracks.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Bob
Isn't this a problem of the source?
When I look at the web page for that album, I see exactly that what you describe.
MP3tag only takes up that can be found on a page - and if the source does not show a separate entry for each file, then MP3tag cannot guess what may be missing, I assume.
Thanks for your reply. Yeah, I guess it's just a problem with the source of the information. It's frustrating that there's such chaos in the world of music and it's all important metadata. Musicbrainz doesn't even have this set in it's database, a Sony Music release.
This is really a problem for classical music fans moving away from physical media. We want to know who the composer is, who's the soloist, who's the conductor, etc.
It's not mp3tag's failing, though, it's a great program.
Bob
You could minimize this frustration for yourself and all other classical music fans if you enter this data into the online music databases like MusicBrainz or Discogs.
All this sources depends highly on people like you contributing metadata.