Album Artist Tags are missing

Answered

Eli Barbie

• December 18, 2019 10:43
• Edited

Hi

 

I've asked this before in a different post here: 

 

https://support1.bluesound.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360037610873-Is-the-Bluos-really-that-limited-Roon-question

 

but did not get a satisfying answer, so I'm trying again.

 

The problem is that I could not find a way to filter album artist only in the bluos app. Let me be more clear:

 

There are two different Artists taggings. One is the Track artist, the other is the Album Artist. For example, let's take Paul McCartney's Pipes of Peace album. The album artist, in this case, is Paul McCartney, as well as the track artist for all of the tracks on the album, with exception to one track "Say say say", in which the album artist is still Paul McCartney, but the track artist is listed as Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson. Now under "Artist" filtering in bluos, both "Paul McCartney" and "Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson" appear, which indicates that bluos cannot distinguish between album and track artist. This creates a very large list of single-track artists. In both Kodi or Foobar2000 there is a distinction between the two. 

 

There should be two categories "album artist" and "track artist" or simply artist. Am I missing something here?

 

Thanks

 

 

 

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• Official comment

  

  Tony W.

  Product Support Manager

  • December 18, 2019 16:32
  • Edited

  When editing your Tags

  AARTIST or ALBUMARTIST would be Paul McCartney while ARTIST will be Paul McCartney Featuring Michael Jackson, as opposed to "The Girl is Mine" in which case it would Sir Paul and The King of Pop would be inverted...
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  Eli Barbie

  • December 18, 2019 20:38

  Mmm. this is interesting. If I understand correctly, you are saying that my files are not properly tagged? But all of my 100,000 FLAC files are either downloaded with their original tags, or had their tags edited by Foobar2000. 

   

  When the files are played using Foobar2000 or Kodi, there is a clear distinction between "Album Artist" (%album artist% in both Foobar2000 and Kodi) or "Artist" (%artist% in Foobar). The bluos app sorting categories does not show ant album artist category, it only shows "Artist" which treats both %album artist% and %artist% the same.

  Are you saying that adding a new tag named AARTIST and copying the data from %album artist% to this new tag, will solve the problem, forcing bluos to add an "album artist" search category/filter?

  If so, can you please recommend a tag editing tool that can scan all my files and automatically make these changes? 

   

  Thanks

   

   

   

   

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  Tony W.

  Product Support Manager

  • December 19, 2019 13:50

  Yes - any tag editor will do. Just ensure your tags are entered correctly as set down by ID3 standards.

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