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Various Artists compilations

vljm1@vljm1
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#1 · November 27, 2024, 11:33 am

Hi there.

First of all - thank you PB for doing this. I've been downloading your rips for 15+ years. Great quality of music I liked, found a lot I didn't knew before.

Lately I noticed that tags in compilations are mixed up. Album Artist tag should be 'Various Artists' and artist of the track in tag Artist.

Now its otherwise and foobar shows each track as different album and needs manual cut/paste to fix. If you could switch tag setup once at flac encoding/taging step that could fix it forever. Thanks.

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Drybonz@drybonz
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#2 · November 27, 2024, 6:09 pm

People use different tagging systems.  I, personally, don't use album artist at all.  So, it's best if you make the tag changes yourself.

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PB@pbthal
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#3 · December 6, 2024, 5:24 am

The way I am tagging Various Artists works for what I need it for...if you need another schema feel free to programmatically retag

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LudWIG@ludwig
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#4 · December 6, 2024, 10:08 am

The way the files are named (with track artist names) it is really easy to programmatically re-tag.

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