Re: [Easytag-mailing] Album Artist

[Johnny Rosenberg <gurus knugum gmail com>]

2011/11/27 richard lucassen <mailinglists lucassen org>:
> On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:57:54 +0100
> Götz Waschk <goetz waschk gmail com> wrote:
>
>> > Easytag now contains a tag called "Album artist". Can someone
>> > explain what this field is used for? Or better: give an example?
>>
>> it is for albums that have more than one artist, e.g. split releases
>> or compilations. For the latter, set the tag to "Various Artists".
>
> Hmm, when tagging it with Easytag, "metaflac" is is unable to list it:
>
> I set "Album Artist" to "test"
>
> $ metaflac --export-tags-to=-
> 01-01-Telemann-Du-aber-Daniel-gehe-hin--Sonata.flac TITLE=Sonata 1
> ARTIST=Gli Angeli Geneve
> ALBUM=Du aber Daniel gehe hin
> DISCNUMBER=01
> DATE=2007
> TRACKNUMBER=01
> TRACKTOTAL=17
> GENRE=Classical
> DESCRIPTION=Stephan Macleod, German Baroque Cantatas
> COMMENT=Stephan Macleod, German Baroque Cantatas
> COMPOSER=Telemann
>
> Where is this field stored?

Tags in FLAC files are stored as text at the beginning of the file.
You can open a FLAC file with a hexadecimal editor, such as GHex2
(available in Ubuntu's repositories – you didn't mention what
distribution you have, though), and you will then see every tag there
is. If it's not there, it doesn't exist.


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
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