ARTIST Tag in Files

[GavinB]

I’ve been busy tidying up the sort values for artists in my collection.

I’m having issues with just one album -it’s a Chesky 30th Anniversary collection bought as a download.

For tracks with multiple artists I can’t get them to appear as two separate artists. In the tag editor they look correct, with the different artist names spearated by semi-colons. However, they only appear under one artist when I browse for them.

If I view the file using Notepad I can only find one entry for ARTIST= (with the full text of both artists and semi-colon).

If I do the same for any other file, it shows mutliple entries for Artist and of course the behaviour is as I expect - I can find the same file by browsing to both artists.

Looks like this has something to do with ARTIST vs. Artist tag.

I deleted the Artist tag and saved the (test) file. A quick look with Notepad confirmed it was no longer there. When I re-added it, it worked, putting two values in, but this time as Artist= rather than ARTIST=.

What’s the difference?
Any ideas?
(I’m using Minimserver, and I’ve asked this question on their forum too.)

[feeling_zen]

Sadly tags are case sensitive so “ARTIST”, “Artist”, and “artist” are three different tags.

Ther is also the “AlbumArtist” tag which seems to get used more often in conjunction with an “Artist” tag to form compilations. However, please bear in mind that how these render in your app will depend on both the UPnP server configuration you use and the app itself.

You can use something like dbpoweramp with the ID3 tag rewriter plugin to automate some corrections but you may still find inconsistencies.