mr-b;291231 Wrote: > Anyway I changed the 2nd setting and the Artists listing still contains > the spurious "Artist - Track" entries - even after a "clear and > rescan". As long as the tags still contain these values SC will use them. There's no way to get rid of them without actually changing the tags.
mr-b;291231 Wrote: > My issue is that I'm not sure what constitutes "clean". As stated > before, I can't see any guidance on tagging for compilations. > Is the blank Title tag and combined artist=artist-title tag "clean"? > EAC has tagged it that way for lots of compilations so it seems > strange that they are all wrong (I guess the source was freedb). Compilations are tagged just like normal albums with an album title (must be the same on all tracks), track artist and track title. SC will recognise these albums as compilations and will list them under various artists. To have both artist and title in the artist tag is certainly not what I call clean. The problem seems to be that freedb only uses one artist field for the album artist and not artist fields per track. Compilations in freedb are usually tagged with "Various" as album artist and track artist and track title seperated by "-" or "/" in the title field. I have no clue why EAC puts these value into the artist field and not the title field. Some ripping programs let you split these values into seperate track artist and track title fields prior to ripping the CD (e.g. grip on linux can do this). In mp3tag you can define actions to process a large number of tracks at once. It should be possible to set up an action that splits the artist field at any given seperator character and puts artist and title in their respective tag fields. Another option would be to use a musicbrainz tagger to automatically tag those albums. The musicbrainz database makes use of track artists and some more fields that are not present in freedb. -s. -s. -- slimpy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimpy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1524 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46264 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
