reniera;651309 Wrote: > I just retagged that album to make sure if was tagged OK in the first > place and all fields come back exactly the same. > > So it seems that indeed MusicBrainz have changed something and that > we'll have to live with it ... > > Thanks a lot for your time Erland > Feels like Picard bug/limitation, according to the following page: http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Picard_Tag_Mapping
Picard is supposed to map: MusicBrainz Album Artist Id -> Release Artist -> TPE2 MusicBrainz Artist Id -> Artist -> TPE1 I think the issue they have here is that there are multiple artists for the second track: David Guetta: 302bd7b9-d012-4360-897a-93b00c855680 Chris Willis: 9871f931-c64a-4c09-b090-d1ce25b2c073 But Picard have choosed to write - MusicBrainz Artist Id tag that contains the first artist - TPE1 tag that contains a string that describes both artists but not according to the tagging specification which says they should be separated with "/" And SBS interprets the TPE1 string when it detects if to create a new artist or update an existing. The result is that you get two artists in SBS but they both get the musicbrainz id of the first artist. So Picard writes the data according to its own interpretation and SBS interprets the tags a different way than Picards write them, the result is incorrect behavior. Unfortunately, there is information missing in the tags, so there is no way SBS can handle it correctly. The only solution I can see is if Picard would write multiple values to the tags, I believe this is possible according to the MP3(ID3) tagging specification for the TPE1 tag (separated with "/") but it will probably break too many applications if they started to write multiple values to the "MusicBrainz Artist Id" tag. ID3 specification can be found here: http://www.id3.org/id3v2.3.0 It would be interesting to see how Picard writes this to another tagging format, for example FLAC files, which supports multiple occurrences of the same tag. I'm guessing it shows the same issues, but it would be interesting to verify this. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my answer helped you and you like to encourage future presence on this forum and/or third party plugin/applet development, 'donations are always appreciated' (http://erland.isaksson.info/donate)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89719 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
