MrSinatra;693653 Wrote:
>
> gary, i don't think what ur talking about applies here... i have
> things that have AA tags that aren't artist tags that show up, like
> "Soundtrack (Film)" if it is the AA tag and has a comp tag, it will be
> in both places, A tags don't apply.
ah yes. got it.
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emalvick;693511 Wrote:
> Does it really over-ride the AA tag in terms of browsing, though? Back
> at one point while messing with the comp tag, if I had a comp tag + AA
> (AA not equal to VA) the album would show up both under the AA and
> under the VA (Compilations) menu... i.e. it seemed they
emalvick;693511 Wrote:
> Does it really over-ride the AA tag in terms of browsing, though? Back
> at one point while messing with the comp tag, if I had a comp tag + AA
> (AA not equal to VA) the album would show up both under the AA and
> under the VA (Compilations) menu... i.e. it seemed they
MrSinatra;693300 Wrote:
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> its really debatable if server even needs to know something is a comp
> or not, but for the sake of itunes users i have added explicit comp
> tags to my files, which over-rides the AA tag for comp status.
>
Does it really over-ride the AA tag in terms of browsing, t
one of the problems with server imo, is that you can't switch easily on
the fly between browsing just album artists, or all artists.
in any case, i put an album artist on everything. for comps, sometimes
its "Various Artists" but sometimes its "Soundtrack (Film)" or something
like that. i basic
pjs;692745 Wrote:
> If we have a compilation album:
>
> Album: No Alternative
> 01. Superdeformed (Artist = Matthew Sweet, Album Artist = Various
> Artists)
> 02. For All to See (Artist = Buffalo Tom, Album Artist = Various
> Artists)
> ...
> 19. Verse Chorus Verse (Artist = Nirvana, Album Ar
pjs;692745 Wrote:
> OK, thanks to everyone for the really instructive responses. I now
> understand why I wasn't seeing the song artist being updated. It was
> the ol' Artist vs Album Artist issue. I had changed the Artist in the
> metadata, but I guess the "key" that's used when you browse "m
Here is how my workflow has evolved over the years as far as editing tags:
I update the Album, Artist, Genre, Title, Track and Year tags with MP3Tag
I delete all other tags with MP3Tag
I use Foobar2000 to scan and update tags for ReplayGain
I use MusicIP to scan and update the tags for Music IP
D
OK, thanks to everyone for the really instructive responses. I now
understand why I wasn't seeing the song artist being updated. It was
the ol' Artist vs Album Artist issue. I had changed the Artist in the
metadata, but I guess the "key" that's used when you browse "music by
artist" is the Albu
Some files have padded tag area so a tag change may not chnage it's size
that leaves timestamps , but you don't wnat to ruin your chronology in
the new music folders so some poeple have found ways to just adjust the
time stamp 2 seconds or similar .
--
Mnyb
pjs;692622 Wrote:
> Just to make sure I'm *not* crazy, I wanted to verify that when I rescan
> with "Find new and changed music" it won't update database entries when
> the metadata changes only.
That's incorrect. It _will_ update the database when only the metadata
changes. If either the file s
I'm not sure I understand the question but "Find new and changed music"
will basically work as follows:
1. It detect all files that have a file modification timestamp that's
later than the previously scanned version of the file, this means that
it will detect:
- New files which doesn't exist in S
I have a lot of digital music and am on a lifelong quest to perfect my
tagging (e.g. changing Artist/Album Artist from "UB 40" or "ub40" to
the correct "UB40").
Just to make sure I'm *not* crazy, I wanted to verify that when I
rescan with "Find new and changed music" it won't update database
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