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deskmate

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Losing Tag info
« on: June 21, 2011, 05:03:44 am »
Hi,

I have tagged my FLAC files' "Album Artists" field using Tagscanner and then checked with dBPoweramp, and confirm this tag info is corrected tagged.  However, once I ask MC to import those files, the "Album Artists" field is still empty in the MC.

Any reason why?

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Re: Losing Tag info
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2011, 11:05:00 am »
Have you pre-created this field in MC's database first?  Options->Library & Folders->Manage Library Fields.
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Re: Losing Tag info
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2011, 10:24:42 pm »
I just checked, this field is there by default...
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Re: Losing Tag info
« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2011, 10:29:43 pm »
Album Artist is, not Album Artists (plural).  Or was that just a typo in the original post?
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Re: Losing Tag info
« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2011, 10:51:53 pm »
was just a typo in the previous post.
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Re: Losing Tag info
« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2011, 11:16:36 pm »
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Re: Losing Tag info
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2011, 02:58:48 am »
MC can read two variants of this tag, ALBUM ARTIST and ALBUMARTIST. Here is a quote from my reply:

Quote from: Alex B on March 11, 2011, 09:46:16 am
Most FLAC tags are "WYSIWYG", i.e. the default name of the library field is exactly the same as the tag header inside the file, but a few tags are mapped differently to make them compatible with other popular implementations. Here is the latest change:

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15.0.99 (8/20/2010)

10. Changed: Ogg and flac tags map database PUBLISHER to ORGANIZATION, database ORGANIZATION (if existing) to JR_ORGANIZATION,
and if there's an ALBUM ARTIST write it out as both ALBUM ARTIST and ALBUMARTIST. Read either, ALBUM ARTIST preferentially.
If a FLAC tag value wasn't imported to any library field you can always create a new field that has the correct name and do "Library Tools > Update Library (from tags).


deskmate,

Could you upload a small sample file somewhere and post a link?
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Re: Losing Tag info
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2011, 05:01:19 am »
I just downloaded and installed TagScanner (v.5.1.597). At least by default it uses the ALBUM ARTIST tag frame for this FLAC tag.

Perhaps you would just need to do "Library Tools > Update Library (from tags)".  (Assuming MC has seen the files before the tag change and you have not set Auto-Import to "Update for external changes".)
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Re: Losing Tag info
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2011, 11:06:07 pm »
thanks for the help, will double check.
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