Album artist view
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:50 pmHi,
I couldn't understand why none of my FLAC files showed in the album artist view (only MP3/WMA/AAC files showed), but then I discovered that there are two common tags for album artist: "ALBUMARTIST" and "ALBUM ARTIST" (as well as the less common "ALBUM_ARTIST"). All of the album artist tags for the FLAC files in my collection were tagged with Winamp, which uses only the "ALBUM ARTIST" form of the tag, which Serviio doesn't seem not support.
There is no standard tag name for album artist for the Vorbis Comment format as to which of these is correct (going by Xiph's page on it); this has resulted in some programs writing one or both of these forms (with some hardware players only supporting one or the other), therefore the only solution is to support and allow all of these common variants!
Cheers,
David
I couldn't understand why none of my FLAC files showed in the album artist view (only MP3/WMA/AAC files showed), but then I discovered that there are two common tags for album artist: "ALBUMARTIST" and "ALBUM ARTIST" (as well as the less common "ALBUM_ARTIST"). All of the album artist tags for the FLAC files in my collection were tagged with Winamp, which uses only the "ALBUM ARTIST" form of the tag, which Serviio doesn't seem not support.
There is no standard tag name for album artist for the Vorbis Comment format as to which of these is correct (going by Xiph's page on it); this has resulted in some programs writing one or both of these forms (with some hardware players only supporting one or the other), therefore the only solution is to support and allow all of these common variants!
Cheers,
David