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Album Artist Tag
« on: February 24, 2009, 09:58:36 am »
I came accross some problems with the way, JRiver MC handles this tag. JRiver is asking for a blank inbetween Album and Aritst, ie "Album Artist". However, a audio file tagged this way, does not get the Albumartist picked up properly in other software, for example Twonky Media. This is looking for "Albumartist" in one word, ie without a space inbetween.

As I would still like to use JRiver MC13 for all my tagging work, this is a bit of a nusance, as I have to use other software to "correct" the Albumartist tag.

Any way around this resp. fixing this issue?

Many thanks
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Re: Album Artist Tag
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2009, 10:13:54 am »
What format are you using?  Tagging specs vary by format.
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Re: Album Artist Tag
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2009, 10:16:45 am »
FLAC Tags (Vorbis Comments)
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Re: Album Artist Tag
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2009, 03:05:22 pm »
This was an issue for me too in SqueezeCenter (formerly known as SlimServer), for which I generated a SqueezeCenter patch to map "Album Artist" -> "AlbumArtist".  The fix is now included in recent 7.3.x releases.  Quite some time ago, I did similar for "DISC #" -> "DISC".  Other mappings of interest to SqueezeCenter are: "REPLAY GAIN" -> "REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN" and "PEAK LEVEL" -> "REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK".
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Re: Album Artist Tag
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2009, 12:38:23 pm »
Not sure such a "Map" is possible in Twonky - or how to realise it.

In any case, it would be great if MC13 maps the tags correctly in the first place  :D

Matt / Jim, any chance of adressing this soon? doesnt seem to be just my problem only.....
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Re: Album Artist Tag
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2009, 01:16:37 pm »
It's not clear that it is an MC problem.  MrC says above that it was fixed, for example, in SqueezeCenter 7.3.x releases.
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Re: Album Artist Tag
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2009, 02:06:13 pm »
I think Album Artist (with a space character) is correct for FLAC files. For instance, foobar 2000 and Winamp use it.

However, as a workaround, you could create an "Albumartist" user field and copy the field values.
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Re: Album Artist Tag
« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2009, 03:44:30 pm »
Thanks Alex, that might work - I'll try it out
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