dMC can't find album artist in .wav files in most cases

[apb1]

I have an issue that dbPowerAmp converter is not finding the Album Artist field in most of my .wav files (although it does find it in a few). I'm using the latest purchased version of dbPowerAmp which I downloaded last night. I check the files in Media Monkey and the Album Artist tag is set. However, the hover over and properties for the file itself do not show this field as being set. If I batch convert the files, everything gets messed up as I name directories based on Album Artist. If I batch convert using xrecode II, everything works fine. So it looks like MediaMonkey and xrecode II are able to find the Album Artist tag fine, but dbPowerAmp is not able to. This is critically blocking my being able to use the batch converter for anything.

Also, is there a convenient way to swap tags? I want to convert to ALAC and swap the Artist and Album Arist tags at the same time. I didn't see any convenient way to do that with rules.

Cheers,
Tony

[Spoon]

Re: dMC can't find album artist in .wav files in most cases

You must be using List tags for Wave, there is no standard for storing album artist in WAVE List tags, the MediaMonkey must be using their own specific tag value.

[apb1]

Re: dMC can't find album artist in .wav files in most cases

Is there any possibility of making dMC interoperable with MediaMonkey for .wav file tags? At least some other software is able to deal with their tag format for .wav files.

Also, there is still the crippling issue that dMC does not support UTF-8 in tags. I know this violates the standard, but it is still common practice. Maybe there could be a checkbox (which is off by default) that indicates that tags should be assumed to be UTF-8. That way dMC would be standards compliant by default, but advanced users could make dMC vastly more interoperable when needed.

[Spoon]

Re: dMC can't find album artist in .wav files in most cases

dBpoweramp writes a ID3v2 tag chunk to wave, this is much better as it handles all the fields + is unicode.