10-22-2021, 05:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-22-2021, 08:02 PM by TheOldPresbyope.
Edit Reason: ETA compilation album
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@suhrim
Here's the content of the Vorbis Comment block in your first track as reported by metaflac:
The multiple instances of the ALBUMARTIST field is not recommended practice (there's no standard, by the way, so it's up to software developers to agree). I would have expected, rather, a single instance, conventionally with the value "Various Artists" [ETA] for a compilation album but I suppose you could use "Placebo & David Bowie" (for your example) as one might, say, for "Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young". Just be sure it's the same on all tracks of the album.
The multiple instances of the ARTIST field is the recommended practice for dealing with multiple artists in a Vorbis Comment block.
The fields/values in this file get presented differently in the user interfaces of the different tag editors I keep around---EasyTag, Kid3, MusicBrainz Picard, Mp3Tag---and in various command-line tools. One has to experiment to get what one wants consistently. I have no experience with foobar2000 and can't comment on it.
I didn't find a sample MP3 file in the zip archive so I can't comment on possible ID3v2 encoding issues.
Regards,
Kent
Here's the content of the Vorbis Comment block in your first track as reported by metaflac:
Code:
METADATA block #1
type: 4 (VORBIS_COMMENT)
is last: false
length: 543
vendor string: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
comments: 16
comment[0]: AccurateRipDiscID=004-0004e8d7-001513ad-3f092005-1
comment[1]: AccurateRipResult=AccurateRip: Accurate (confidence 5) [91B978DA]
comment[2]: ALBUM=Without You I'm Nothing (Single)
comment[3]: ALBUMARTIST=Placebo
comment[4]: ALBUMARTIST=David Bowie
comment[5]: ARTIST=Placebo
comment[6]: ARTIST=David Bowie
comment[7]: DATE=1999
comment[8]: GENRE=Alt Rock
comment[9]: TITLE=Without You I'm Nothing (Single Mix)
comment[10]: TRACKTOTAL=4
comment[11]: TRACKNUMBER=1
comment[12]: replaygain_album_gain=-8.53 dB
comment[13]: replaygain_album_peak=1.000000
comment[14]: replaygain_track_gain=-9.96 dB
comment[15]: replaygain_track_peak=1.000000The multiple instances of the ALBUMARTIST field is not recommended practice (there's no standard, by the way, so it's up to software developers to agree). I would have expected, rather, a single instance, conventionally with the value "Various Artists" [ETA] for a compilation album but I suppose you could use "Placebo & David Bowie" (for your example) as one might, say, for "Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young". Just be sure it's the same on all tracks of the album.
The multiple instances of the ARTIST field is the recommended practice for dealing with multiple artists in a Vorbis Comment block.
The fields/values in this file get presented differently in the user interfaces of the different tag editors I keep around---EasyTag, Kid3, MusicBrainz Picard, Mp3Tag---and in various command-line tools. One has to experiment to get what one wants consistently. I have no experience with foobar2000 and can't comment on it.
I didn't find a sample MP3 file in the zip archive so I can't comment on possible ID3v2 encoding issues.
Regards,
Kent
