FYI, to possibly add to the confusion. :D Mp3tag, a leading tagging tool, maps what is calls "BAND" to MP3 IDv2.3 TPE2. This is fairly normal. It also directly maps it's "BAND" variable to WM/AlbumArtist for WMA content, and to the aART atom for M4A content. (These two are "real" Album Artist tags.)
So, at least for 3 media formats with non-'free-form" tagging (MP3, WMA & M4A)... in Mp3tag, what it calls BAND is really Album Artist based on the cross-mapping. Anyway, like it or not, TPE2 is a popular de facto standard for Album Aritst for MP3. iTunes, WinAmp, Mp3Tag, MediaMonkey, Sonos, Rockbox, Explorer shell, WMP 10/11, etc. It's a shame ID3v2 was half-baked at design, but we're stuck with it. Slim should offer a simple setting to treat TPE2 MP3 as Album Artist as much as WMA WM/AlbumArtist and M4A aART. -- grommet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ grommet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5959 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46093 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
