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ALBUM ARTIST tag in database
linuxstb:
--- Quote from: stripwax on June 02, 2007, 06:18:41 AM ---Mm, but how is that any different from having BAND="Artist A" and ARTIST="Artist A with Artist B". How does a seperate "ALBUM ARTIST" tag help ?
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Apologies for not reading the thread fully - I thought the question related to the use of an album-artist tag in general, rather than some id3v2 specific weirdness. I don't want to get involved in that discussion...
Rincewind:
I think this is just a special foobar2k way, because no standard existed before. Maybe they wanted to use a TXXX field to have the same name across formats. There is also a tag TRACK ARTIST (which is kind of a counter part for album artist). With this you can have the normal artist tag for the whole album, and the tracks with guests get an additional Track Artist field.
Using the TPE2 tag is not that much of a problem, since foobar is flexible enough to use this tag, too.
I just did a quick google search and found out that amarok (my current music player in linux) will support TPE2 as album artist in the future, my previous comment is obsolete now, for me. ;)
Generally speaking, it would still be nice to have support for arbitrary tags in the database, but that is not easy to do in a way that works nice with different tag formats.
Theobald:
Arghl, I just spent an hour testing why RB won't show me the "ALBUM ARTIST" tag on my new e280 before I eventually searched the forum and found this thread.
I am too using foobar2k and I have several albums where I have set the "ALBUM ARTIST" and I think the BAND (TPE2) tag does not fit.
--- Quote ---I think this is just a special foobar2k way, because no standard existed before.
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Yes, when there is nothing in the specifications, you simply have to use a new field (that's why there is the TXXX). Using TPE2 for the Album Artist is clearly a misuse of that field. And just because WinAmp, iTunes and whoever misuses this field too, does not make it automatically right.
I really hope there will be a new Album Artist tag in the next version of ID3 and TPE2 stays like it was intended.
An example (beside the VAs): Late Night Tales - Jamiroquai
Therefore I would really like to see Rockbox (which is a great piece of software btw ;)) to additionally support the Album Artist tag.
Pretty please with a cherry on top ;D
bzavala:
Another example is Yoko Ono - Yes I'm a Witch
Different bands playing her music, and she still... well.. sings...
Ben 8-)
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