10-15-2019, 06:24 PM
(08-13-2019, 11:47 PM)Tim Curtis Wrote: It's no longer needed because the new Library loader does it automatically based on the Album Artist tag.
The most common method of tagging compilation albums is to set the Album Artist tag to the string "Various Artists". Many ripping utilities do this automatically if they detect the album is a compilation. Mine doesn't (iTunes) so I just manually update the tags whenever I rip a compilation album.
Well, anyway, this has forced me to go through the library and look for the albums that have various track artists and lack a single album artist. This is a library that was the work of several years, and (physically) decades in the making. All lossless, except for DSDs for which I have a backup of the original files/ISOs, but that have been converted to 24/88.2 or 24/176.4 depending whether they were DSD64 or higher.
My library is now much better organised. Using Metadatics and Kid3 I also downloaded much more curated versions of many tags.
Roberto
