@JJZolx Thank you again for your help. I really appreciate it! :D
JJZolx wrote: > You should be able to do it in Mp3tag. There's an action called 'Split > field by separator' that does exactly this. Found it and it seems to work (at least MP3Tag is showing separate fields). JJZolx wrote: > 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. Yes, I do almost the same. MP3Tag is also a great tool to remove special characters from the file names. However, my other tagging software (probably Media Monkey or EAC) added ALBUM ARTIST (while I only tag ALBUMARTIST), so I got rid of the former. Should make no difference, I hope. And I do not tag ALBUMARTISTSORT. Is there an easy way to add it to a large number of files? I always tag artists "naturally", i.e. firstname lastname, e.g. Eric Clapton. Is there a action in MP3Tag that will create an ALBUMARTISTSORT tag Clapton, Eric automatically? JJZolx wrote: > 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. Yes, that is exactly what I do, too. I like your taste in music, by the way! :cool: JJZolx wrote: > 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. So far, I did not have a streamer that could handle the tag (used Sonos until recently), so I just tagged these albums with ALBUMARTIST=Compilation. I now added a a COMPILATION=1 field to the files, as you suggested. Let's see what happens ... After re-tagging my whole library, copying the files to my NAS will take the whole night, so I'll have to wait until tomorrow until I can see the results in action. However, here is one example of what a fairly typical song-tagging now looks like in my library (tags depend heavily on genre and recording-medium, though). 16128 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: tags_compilation.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=16128| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ vanye's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100184 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
