Re: [Easytag-mailing] Album Artist

[Random Mister <random mister gmail com>]

Yes, it is indeed a bug. Or more accurately, it is not implemented.
I created the patch to add album artists to tags, but because I only use 
it for mp3 files (and I'm lazy ;) ) i did not make it for flac or ogg 
files. I don't know if anyone will pick up this bug, maybe i can do it 
if i can find some time. It shouldn't be that hard.

Daniel



On 29-11-2011 12:15, richard lucassen wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:14:02 +0100
> richard lucassen<mailinglists lucassen org>  wrote:
>
> > > > Hmm, when tagging it with Easytag, "metaflac" is is unable to list
> > > > it:
> > > no idea, it is working fine with mp3 files.
> > Easytag itself reads the tag in flac files without problems, so it
> > must be stored somewhere...
> No, it isn't stored. When quitting the directory and entering it again,
> the tag "Album Artist" has disappeared. IMHO this is a bug: Album
> Artist does not work with flac files the way Easytag implements it.
>
> When setting the "Album Artist" of an mp3 file, mp3info2 reports that
> the tag is called "Orchestra (etc)":
>
> mp3info2 file.mp3 | grep test
> Orchestra (etc): test
>
> Strange. According to sources on the net, in case of ogg and flac, the
> tag should be called ALBUMARTIST. And indeed: an excellent program like
> "Ario" shows the contents of the "Album Artist" when setting the tag
> "ALBUMARTIST":
>
> metaflac --set-tag='ALBUMARTIST=test' *.flac
>
> So, this posting is a bugreport :-)
>
> R.