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My music library is mostly FLAC files created by ripping my CD collection with Exact Audio Copy. Unfortunately I didn’t pay a lot of attention to tagging when I was ripping (I just accepted whatever EAC pulled in) and now have a decent, but not great, library.
I’m trying to tidy things up with Picard and am having issues with tracks that have multiple artists. This seems to be a perennial problem, but I can’t find anything that matches my situation.
I’ve used Picard to identify this album and saved the tags. When I inspect the first track I find:
I can’t find any discussion about the use of an ARTISTS (vs ARTIST) tag - I’m sure the discussion is out there, but it’s such a generic term that it’s difficult to search for. I’m wondering why Picard does this and if it’s configurable (maybe using a different tag version?) because my primary music player (MPD) will not search for ARTISTS, only ARTIST. Note that it happily and correctly (IMHO) handles multiple ARTIST tags and also correctly handles the multiple MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID tags.
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I’m trying to tidy things up with Picard and am having issues with tracks that have multiple artists. This seems to be a perennial problem, but I can’t find anything that matches my situation.
I’ve used Picard to identify this album and saved the tags. When I inspect the first track I find:
Code:
$ metaflac --list 01\ -\ Playin\'\ with\ my\ Firends.flac | grep ARTIST
comment[1]: ARTIST=B.B. King
comment[20]: MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMARTISTID=dcb03ce3-67a5-4eb3-b2d1-2a12d93a38f3
comment[21]: ALBUMARTIST=B.B. King
comment[22]: ALBUMARTISTSORT=King, B.B.
comment[31]: MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID=dcb03ce3-67a5-4eb3-b2d1-2a12d93a38f3
comment[32]: MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID=7112c4bc-5b15-4180-bfd5-2ca76745e87c
comment[33]: ARTISTSORT=King, B.B. feat. Cray, Robert
comment[34]: ARTISTS=B.B. King
comment[35]: ARTISTS=Robert CrayI can’t find any discussion about the use of an ARTISTS (vs ARTIST) tag - I’m sure the discussion is out there, but it’s such a generic term that it’s difficult to search for. I’m wondering why Picard does this and if it’s configurable (maybe using a different tag version?) because my primary music player (MPD) will not search for ARTISTS, only ARTIST. Note that it happily and correctly (IMHO) handles multiple ARTIST tags and also correctly handles the multiple MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID tags.
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