<Various Artists> doesn't work with 17.3 (Mac)

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the tag: <Various Artists> should use the artist name from the metadata. That's how it worked previously. Now, <Various Artists> yields the tag "Various Artists" instead of artist name.

Can you help me with this, please?

[Spoon]

Re: &lt;Various Artists&gt; doesn't work with 17.3 (Mac)

If you read the metadata from the internet then it will be presented at the top as <various artists>, as long as you do not edit this tag, then the actual artist names underneath should be fine, select a single track and the real artist name is shown.

[offline]

Re: &lt;Various Artists&gt; doesn't work with 17.3 (Mac)

Lower case. I hadn't thought of that. I'll give it a try.

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Re: &lt;Various Artists&gt; doesn't work with 17.3 (Mac)

[SIZE=5]I found the problem: The fields are looking for "display title" and "extended display title". How can I fix this?
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That didn't work. Here's a picture of the problem:

And here's the related metadata:

[Dat Ei]

Re: &lt;Various Artists&gt; doesn't work with 17.3 (Mac)

Ok, let's go into the details:

1.) "artist name" is the name of a tag.
2.) "Peter Gabriel" can be i.e. a value for the tag "artist name"
3.) "<various artists>" is not a value you can assign to a tag like "artist name".
4.) "<various artists>" represents the values of a tag like "artist name", if you have selected more than one track, which have different values for their tag "artist name".

What to do?

I assign the names of the involved artists to the tracks, who might differ from track to track, and I do not assign any value to the tag "album artist", if it is a compilation of different artists.


Dat Ei

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Re: &lt;Various Artists&gt; doesn't work with 17.3 (Mac)

Thanks for the quick reply. The tag <Various Artists> should be what populates a field like that. I found the problem using my Plex server.