Need help editing (iPhone/Apple Music app)

[Actavis]

Hello,

I am having trouble identifying how to add a couple tags via the Mp3tag application. I attached photos to help explain my issue (photo is 1) from my library 2) what shows up on Apple Music for the same album). Basically I want my album to match up exactly like the Apple Music version. All songs are in M4A format.

The first is that the artist name does not appear red/hyperlinked in my music library (using iPhone music app). The artist name matches up exactly with what’s on iTunes and I am confident all other data is correct.

Second, is it possible to get the stars next to the songs that updates with iTunes? In the meta data I added the catalogid to each specific song. I’m not sure why it doesn’t update with the star to match up with what’s on iTunes/Apple Music.

Any information how to fix these things would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

[ohrenkino]

See this thread on iTunes rating:

Saving Itunes rating and counter

Yes, this tag can store play count and rating, but iTunes doesn't use it. The info from iTunes is only stored in its database. If you had a file with a popularimeter tag, it could be seen in the extended tag view that can be opened by pressing [Alt+T] or clicking the [:mt_tag:] button. If you still want to have this info in the tag, it could probably work because iTunes can export the database to csv.

If you want to do anything with MP3tag it would be much more interesting to see the data from the MP3tag extended tags dialogue (Alt-T) as that is the place where Mp3tag could do something for you.

[Actavis]

Thank you for that link, I will look into it further.

Here is the respective extended tags for the album I am trying to edit. I also included the tags for another album that appears properly on my music app (with the artist name in red/hyperlinked and popular songs with stars)

[ohrenkino]

As far as I can tell your problems have nothing to do with tagging.
Both dumps show a reasonable amount of filled fields.
So now it is probably up to the app to find the link (the link does not seem to be included in the tags), so I bet it is something Apple internal.

The only thing that puzzles me: COMPILATION is set to 0 in both cases. In former times COMPILATION either was set to 1 (meaning: this is part of a compilation) or non-existent... But this observation has most likely nothing to do with the problems that you describe.

[malhal]

I was also interested in these stars. For one of these starred tracks on macOS I used exiftool to set -AppleStoreCatalogID=0 and also changed the title of the album to something unique in the Music app (seems it was caching the stars in the album) then when I synced the track to the iPhone again the star was gone. So it seems the Music app does a network request using using this catalog ID to find out what tracks it should show stars for.

If I changed the title but not the AppleStoreCatalogID it kept the star.