Arrange Audio - seem to not pick Album Artist

[Cloudberry]

I am a frequent user of the great functionality Arrange Audio. Slowly I am getting there, fixing all my collection albums and various artists, hard work but the tool is great. Or rather has been great :p I have had a one month break in this work, and now I seem to have forgotten how to do it.

There are a few albums left for me to fix. I use 'Path' same as the original, so I should be getting the result in the same folder (?). I use Album Artist as the field to build the 'root': Album Artist\Album\Track No - Track

Suddenly this now gives the wrong result. Starting point:

\1916\01 - Song

I want

\motörhead\1916\01 - Song

When I change from Album Artist to Artist I get what I want. But then I will get the wrong result for a huge number of collection albums. I look in MediaMonkey and the both Artist and Album Artist contains 'Motörhead'.

Where did I loose this?

[dbfan]

Re: Arrange Audio - seem to not pick Album Artist

Use [origpath]\[track] - [title]

[Cloudberry]

Re: Arrange Audio - seem to not pick Album Artist

Thanks, but I wonder (I sit in my office and cannot try).

I start with a file that looks like this

Music\[album]\[track] - [title]

and I want it to look like

Music\[album artist]\[album]\[track] - [title]

and when I run that I see no change. When I replace [album artist] with [artist], i get what I want for an album wich is not a varuious artists album.

[dbfan]

Re: Arrange Audio - seem to not pick Album Artist

Are you sure the track has an album artist set in the tags, using a tag dbpoweramp can recognise.

[Cloudberry]

Re: Arrange Audio - seem to not pick Album Artist

Now I found something.

When listing tracks to be converted in dbpoweramp, i display also taginfo, where the Album Artist field is empty.

When listing the file in mediamonky the file contains the Album Artist.

How can I fix this?

[Cloudberry]

Re: Arrange Audio - seem to not pick Album Artist

Sorry...You found something :-)

[BrodyBoy]

Re: Arrange Audio - seem to not pick Album Artist

Sorry...You found something :-)

Perhaps it's just a formatting issue. Sometimes the [album artist] tag is denoted as Album Artist, and sometimes it's AlbumArtist. Perhaps you need the opposite of how it's currently writing them?

[Cloudberry]

Re: Arrange Audio - seem to not pick Album Artist

Nah, sorry to bother you. It seems Media Monkey do not necessarily update the Files Tags physically, just because I update the content in the 'monkey'.

[BrodyBoy]

Re: Arrange Audio - seem to not pick Album Artist

Nah, sorry to bother you. It seems Media Monkey do not necessarily update the Files Tags physically, just because I update the content in the 'monkey'.

Yeah, iTunes does that too. It saves changes in it's own library index file, but that doesn't necessarily mean the actual metadata was changed. :(

[Cloudberry]

Re: Arrange Audio - seem to not pick Album Artist

Anyway, it was easy to run a bactchjob to update all tags. Now the great Arrange Audio is running!