Official moOde 7.0.1 support thread

[Tim Curtis]

@vinnn,

Regarding the "Battles" album MPD reports the tags below. Note that there is no OriginalArtist tag and the Artist and Performer tags are same which is not right.

Code:

pi@rp2:~ $ telnet localhost 6600
Trying ::1...
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
OK MPD 0.22.0
lsinfo "USB/VFAT128/Test_mixed/Battles - B EP (2004, EP) [FLAC]/01 Battles - SZ2.flac"
file: USB/VFAT128/Test_mixed/Battles - B EP (2004, EP) [FLAC]/01 Battles - SZ2.flac
Last-Modified: 2020-02-27T09:41:06Z
Format: 44100:16:2
Time: 559
duration: 559.133
Title: SZ2
Artist: Battles
Album: B EP
Date: 2004
Track: 1
Genre: Math Rock
Performer: Battles
OK

Thanks for looking Tim,

I was going from what was being shown in Easytag but yes after also looking in mp3tag and a couple of players turns out it is actually the performer flac tag not the original artist tag (turns out this is an ID3 only tag so couldn't have been a flac tag anyway) must be an Easytag display quirk.

Still, whether it's a performer tag or other tag its presence shouldn't break the displayed artist or album artist. Every player under the sun including mpd assumes the artist tag as the album artist unless there's also an album artist tag which takes precedence, this behaviour is now broken in v7 web UI.
The code is picking up multiple tags instead of just artist which for example creates an artist name of "ZZ Top, ZZ top" instead of "ZZ Top". This then breaks the logic that evaluates whether album artist should be Unknown AlbumArtist.

HTH

The code now handles multiple occurrences of Genre, Artist, Performer and Conductor tags and considers Artist, Performer and Conductor as all being "artists" which they are. This approach supports Classical collections which are often tagged with multiples, and it still supports Pop collections which normally only have a single Genre, Artist, AlbumArtist tag.

When there are multiple "artists" present it's not possible to determine which one is the AlbumArtist if no AlbumArtist tag exists.

In your test album The same value is assigned to Performer and Artist tags and thus we have multiple "artists", and there is no AlbumArtist tag. This is what results in "Unknown AlbumArtist".

I don't quite understand why the tagging utility creates both a Performer and an Artist tag with the same value. Is this a common practice?

-Tim