How Do I Edit Track Info

[shetland]

I have a large number of music files on my PC, some of which have incorrect artist info etc. Can I use DBpoweramp to change this data and if so, how?. Thanks

[Spoon]

Re: How Do I Edit Track Info

Open Windows Explorer, browse to an album, select all the music files together >> right click >> edit ID Tags

[shetland]

Re: How Do I Edit Track Info

Open Windows Explorer, browse to an album, select all the music files together >> right click >> edit ID Tags

Many thanks for this reply. I have some which are listed as a compilation which they are not. Compilation is shown as 1, what do I change it to if it is not a compilation ?

[EliC]

Re: How Do I Edit Track Info

Many thanks for this reply. I have some which are listed as a compilation which they are not. Compilation is shown as 1, what do I change it to if it is not a compilation ?

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[garym]

Re: How Do I Edit Track Info

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or better yet, instead of changing COMPILATION to "0", you should delete that field altogether (that is, the COMPILATION tag wouldn't even exist) To remove COMPILATION, in the Edit ID tag popup, select all the files you want to remove if from, click on the field name "COMPILATION" and just below the listing of the fields click on "remove". This will remove that field (that is COMPILATION won't exist in the tag rather than being a 1 or 0).

[shetland]

Re: How Do I Edit Track Info

Thanks for the responses. I have sorted all of the 'compilations' My next problem is album artist. Is that the main artist or someone who has appeared on just one or two tracks?

[garym]

Re: How Do I Edit Track Info

Thanks for the responses. I have sorted all of the 'compilations' My next problem is album artist. Is that the main artist or someone who has appeared on just one or two tracks?

I typically leave Album Artist blank. Here's how I use it:

1. typically blank
2. If the ARTIST has lots of name variations but I want them to show up in my library under a single name, I use ALBUM ARTIST. For example, Sir Douglas Quintet, Doug Sahm & Friends, Masked Men, Wayne Douglas, are all "Doug Sahm" and I use Doug Sahm as the album artist for all these CDs. Similarly, for Miles Davis Quintet, Miles Davis Sextet, etc. I put Miles Davis as the Album Artst.
3. I use Logitech Media Server (LMS) and squeezebox players. If an album has even one track that has a different ARTIST, it will treat the CD as a compilation. (Example, alll tracks are Delbert McClinton as artist. One track I have multiple artists (Delbert McClinton and Lucinda Williams). LMS will treat this as compilation CD *unless* I add an ALBUM ARTIST. So I add ALBUM ARTIST of Delbert McClinton so that the CD shows up under my Delbert McClinton CDs.
4. For compilations, I set COMPILATION field to "1" and leave album artist blank UNLESS I want to identify the compilation in some way in my library. For example, if I have a compilation album that's a tribute to Bob Dylan, I put "Bob Dylan" as the album artist so it shows up under Bob Dylan albums. (Some folks use an ALBUM ARTIST name for all compilations, such as "Various Artists" or "Soundtrack Artists", etc.

Then again, there are others that use Album Artist on every CD. For most, the ARTIST and ALBUM ARTIST would be identical. There is no right answer here, only personal preference.

[BrodyBoy]

Re: How Do I Edit Track Info

Thanks for the responses. I have sorted all of the 'compilations' My next problem is album artist. Is that the main artist or someone who has appeared on just one or two tracks?

My suggestion....don't think of "album artist" as a person (or group), and don't get caught up in what the "logical" answer to your question might be.

Instead, think of that tag, which is an important one for most playback devices, as a navigational tool. From that perspective, you can get creative and gain a lot of control over how your music is displayed & organized on your players. Regardless of who the actual artist or performer is on each track, and it could be a whole variety of them, you can have tracks grouped together by that "album artist" tag, whatever it is.

Example:

For all my Bob Dylan albums, [album artist] = Bob Dylan.

For a couple Bob Dylan & The Band albums, where they're basically his back-up band, [album artist] = Bob Dylan.

Finally, for the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert, which is mostly other performers, [album artist] = Bob Dylan.

The end result is that all these albums get grouped under "Bob Dylan," which is what makes sense to me, because it's all Bob Dylan music. (Note that this doesn't alter the actual artist data at all...that information remains intact & properly displayed for each track.)

Rather than lumping every "mixed" album under Compilations or Various Artists, you can use the [album artist] tag to give them more unique identifiers.

Example:

For the multi-volume CD set accompanying Ken Burns' "Jazz" documentary, [album artist] = Ken Burns Jazz, and [album] = Vol. xx.

So rather than this big cumbersome set, with its scores of different artists, being lumped under "Various Artists," it has its own intuitive listing..."Ken Burns Jazz"....under which the "albums" are the volumes of the set. I do this with many big sets, like the 9-volume Stax-Volt Singles, and the 8-volume Atlantic R&B 1947-74. Makes more sense (to me) to have "Stax-Volt Singles" and "Atlantic R&B" listings, with their volumes organized under them, rather then each being one massive album under Various Artists.

It's the [album artist] tag that allows you to manipulate the navigational properties of your music library this way (or whatever way makes sense to you).

[garym]

Re: How Do I Edit Track Info

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