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Title: Album Artist Tag
Post by: bbrip 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
bbrip

Title: Re: Album Artist Tag
Post by: Matt on February 24, 2009, 10:13:54 am

What format are you using?  Tagging specs vary by format.

Title: Re: Album Artist Tag
Post by: bbrip on February 24, 2009, 10:16:45 am

FLAC Tags (Vorbis Comments)

Title: Re: Album Artist Tag
Post by: MrC 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".

Title: Re: Album Artist Tag
Post by: bbrip 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.....

Title: Re: Album Artist Tag
Post by: JimH 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.

Title: Re: Album Artist Tag
Post by: Alex B 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.

Title: Re: Album Artist Tag
Post by: bbrip on February 25, 2009, 03:44:30 pm

Thanks Alex, that might work - I'll try it out