vanye wrote: > Alright, now it works as advertised. All I have to do is enter the "\\" > by hand and erase the tags that my tagging software added on the sly > (e.g. Album Artist or Band). I have to say it is extremely frustrating > after painstakenly ripping and tagging a big library to find out that > the software you used took it upon itself to add tags I never wanted. > > Anyway, what's left for me to test is how this works for compilation > albums. Hopefully I'll find some time over the weekend. > > Can anybody recommend a tagging software that allows me to create macros > (batches) like MP3Tag but adds the "\\" correctly? I really don't want > to do this by hand. Foobar, maybe? It needs to be Windows software.
You should be able to do it in Mp3tag. There's an action called 'Split field by separator' that does exactly this. You don't necessarily have to get rid of the ALBUMARTIST tags - just be careful of what they contain. What I've always done is every time I rip an album, I open it up in Mp3tag and run some actions on it. For instance, I create ARTISTSORT tags, double-checking what is in ALBUMARTIST, add ALBUMARTISTSORT. My tagging habit is to have an ALBUMARTIST on all albums, all tracks, even though it's redundant 95% of the time. Where it's most useful is on albums with either guest artists, or albums where you want to tag with both the individual artists and a band or combo. For example, you might do either of the following: ALBUM: Backwater Blues ALBUMARTIST: Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee ARTIST: Sonny Terry ARTIST: Brownie McGhee or ALBUM: Backwater Blues ARTIST: Sonny Terry ARTIST: Brownie McGhee In the first example, you'll end up with an artist named "Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee" in your library. If you don't want that artist, use the second form. With compilations, the server will usually detect when there are different artists on the tracks and register the album as a compilation. However, when there's an ALBUMARTIST field present, it will normally register the album as a non-compilation. So, as a general rule, always add a COMPILATION=1 field to compilations. Typically, most people will omit the ALBUMARTST field from compilations, but you can still include it if you have COMPILATION=1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100184 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
