Although it is true that freedb only has a track title not an artist title for tracks, EAC will handle compilations correctly when tracks are tagged with the convention "Artist / Title". However, people do not always stick to the convention, using things like "Artist - Title" as in your example, which confuses EAC. Fortunately through the power of "Actions", mp3tag, you can fix this. Here's how:
In mp3tag, load up the offending tracks, highlight them and then select Convert > Actions. Click the button with the star to create a new action group, call it something like "Artist - Title split", then click the star button to create a new action, select "Guess values", enter %artist% into Source Format (since that's where the data is!) and %artist% - %title% in as the guessing pattern, then press OK and OK. Then click the checkbox next to your new action group, hit OK and, voila, mp3tag will split all the artist tags and populate the track tags correctly. Having created this action group, next time you only need to select Convert > Actions and check the action group to use it again. If you come across other dodgy freedb tags (e.g. I've seen Artist -- Title) you can create actions to fix those too. Luckily, most compilations work properly, but this example does give you a hint of the power of Actions! Let me know if anything in this explanation is confusing and I'll happily clarify. -- smc2911 http://www.last.fm/user/smc2911/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ smc2911's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4388 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46264 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
