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  • ikrananka
    • Apr 2008
    • 19

    Multiple Artists Tagging Anomaly

    I have been transitioning from using EAC to dBpoweramp and am in the process of standardising the tagging for all of my previously ripped flac music files. For this I have been re-encoding my flac files using dMC (batch converter) and in the process retagging them (with ID Tag Processing) using the original flac files tags as the basis. I have been checking the success and consistency of the new tags using dMC's (batch converter) Audio Info plug-in and this has been working very well so far.

    However, I have just hit an anomoly between two albums, both with multiple artists in the the Artist tag as follows:

    Album 1

    Ripped by EAC to flac format. Re-encoded using dMC batch converter and ID Tag Processing. Audio Info shows the Artist field to be populated with the following:

    Artist 1; Artist 2 (i.e. multiple artists separated by a semi-colon and a space).

    The dBpoweramp pop-up in windows explorer shows the Artist tag to be shown as:

    Artist 1; Artist 2 (i.e. multiple artists separated by a semi-colon and a space).

    The dBpoweramp Edit ID-tag dialog box in windows explorer shows the Artist tag to be shown as:

    Artist 1; Artist 2 (i.e. multiple artists separated by a semi-colon and a space).

    So consistent in all cases.

    Album 2

    Ripped by dBpoweramp R13 Reference to flac format. Multiple artists were separated by a semi-colon followed by a space. Audio Info shows the Artist field to be populated with the following:

    Artist 1 Artist 2 (i.e. multiple artists separated by a space and NO semi-colon).

    The dBpoweramp pop-up in windows explorer shows the Artist tag to be shown as:

    Artist 1
    Artist 2
    (i.e. multiple artists shown below each other).

    The dBpoweramp Edit-tag dialog box in windows explorer shows the Artist tag to be shown as:

    Artist 1; Artist 2 (i.e. multiple artists separated by a semi-colon and a space).

    Completely inconsistent!!!



    Why is there a difference? I want all of my tagging to be consistent and so would like to resolve this difference.
  • Spoon
    Administrator
    • Apr 2002
    • 43901

    #2
    Re: Multiple Artists Tagging Anomaly

    Make sure you have the latest FLAC codec as a first start.
    Spoon
    www.dbpoweramp.com

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    • ikrananka
      • Apr 2008
      • 19

      #3
      Re: Multiple Artists Tagging Anomaly

      Originally posted by Spoon
      Make sure you have the latest FLAC codec as a first start.
      I am using the latest codec, i.e. FLAC reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917, for all of the re-encoding.

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      • LtData
        dBpoweramp Guru
        • May 2004
        • 8288

        #4
        Re: Multiple Artists Tagging Anomaly

        What version is installed into dMC? The latest version is release 11, based on FLAC 1.2.1.

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        • ikrananka
          • Apr 2008
          • 19

          #5
          Re: Multiple Artists Tagging Anomaly

          Originally posted by LtData
          What version is installed into dMC? The latest version is release 11, based on FLAC 1.2.1.
          It is release 11, FLAC 1.2.1.

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          • Spoon
            Administrator
            • Apr 2002
            • 43901

            #6
            Re: Multiple Artists Tagging Anomaly

            What is the disc title? (artist, album)?
            Spoon
            www.dbpoweramp.com

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            • ikrananka
              • Apr 2008
              • 19

              #7
              Re: Multiple Artists Tagging Anomaly

              Originally posted by Spoon
              What is the disc title? (artist, album)?
              Album 1

              Album Artist = Frank Sinatra
              Album = Duets

              All tracks have two artists defined, Frank Sinatra and one other.

              Album 2

              Album Artist = Frank Sinatra
              Album = Sinatra At The Sands

              Most tracks have two artists defined, Frank Sinatra; Count Basie
              A few others only have one artist defined, Frank Sinatra

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              • Wayne
                dBpoweramp Guru
                • Aug 2002
                • 1252

                #8
                Re: Multiple Artists Tagging Anomaly

                Where is the album meta data sourced from? Could that be the problem?

                What happens to the tags if you rip Album 1 with CD Ripper or Album 2 with EAC? How do the tags compare?

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                • ikrananka
                  • Apr 2008
                  • 19

                  #9
                  Re: Multiple Artists Tagging Anomaly

                  Originally posted by Wayne
                  Where is the album meta data sourced from? Could that be the problem?

                  What happens to the tags if you rip Album 1 with CD Ripper or Album 2 with EAC? How do the tags compare?
                  Album 1 was ripped using EAC and then re-encoded using DMC.

                  Album 2 was ripped using dBpoweramp.

                  I have now since checked the exact tagging using metaflac with the following results:

                  Album 1

                  comment[0]: Artist=Frank Sinatra; Luther Vandross

                  Album 2

                  comment[0]: Artist=Frank Sinatra
                  comment[1]: Artist=Count Basie

                  I assume that the tagging is "correct" for Album 2 (as this had been ripped by dBpoweramp). So within Windows Explorer I went into Edit-tag on one of the tracks in Album 1 and deleted the space between the artist names (so artist1; artist2 => artist1;artist2) and then added the space back in - effectively forcing dBpoweramp to rewrite the Artist tags. This resulted in the tags being rewritten as:

                  comment[0]: Artist=Frank Sinatra
                  comment[1]: Artist=Luther Vandross

                  I repeated this manually for each Album 1 track and now they are listed the same as Album 2. So is it correct/best practice that only one artist should be listed on each artist tag?

                  If so, I'd like to suggest that Audio Info be modified to put a semi-colon between multiple artists to avoid confusion.

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                  • Spoon
                    Administrator
                    • Apr 2002
                    • 43901

                    #10
                    Re: Multiple Artists Tagging Anomaly

                    comment[0]: Artist=Frank Sinatra; Luther Vandross
                    This is incorrect tagging for multiple artists

                    comment[0]: Artist=Frank Sinatra
                    comment[1]: Artist=Count Basie
                    This is correct
                    Spoon
                    www.dbpoweramp.com

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                    • ikrananka
                      • Apr 2008
                      • 19

                      #11
                      Re: Multiple Artists Tagging Anomaly

                      Whatever is "correct" or not, my media programs are not multiple artist aware so I will have to retag them as:

                      comment[0]: Artist=Frank Sinatra; Luther Vandross

                      I know how to do this using dMC to re-encode and using the appropriate "Manipulation" option in ID Tag Processing, but is it possible to also do this manually (thereby avoiding re-encoding) by using Edit ID-tag in windows explorer, i.e. is there an option to change the default behaviour of creating two separate Artist tags?

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                      • Spoon
                        Administrator
                        • Apr 2002
                        • 43901

                        #12
                        Re: Multiple Artists Tagging Anomaly

                        You can install the [ID Tag Update] utility codec to do the same as ID Tag Processing.
                        Spoon
                        www.dbpoweramp.com

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