10-29-2019, 02:38 PM
(10-29-2019, 01:01 PM)David Wrote:(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.
-Tim
This works perfectly with my flac files! Strangely, however, it does not work with my compilation albums in mp3-format! Although I added an Album Artist tag with the string "Various Artists", these albums are split into a multitude of albums with the same album title but different artists. And they don't appear under "Various Artists" at all. I have tagged the mp3 files the same way as the flac files. Does anyone else encounter this problem?
David
One possibility is that you may have inadvertently created more than one set of metadata on your mp3 files, one set in an ID3v1 tag and the other in an ID3v2 tag. These are mutually independent schemes. Check with a good tag editor.
Regards,
Kent
