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ITUNES does not do anything with the plain COMPILATION tag. This is created in my case when I rip CDs in dbpoweramp and the CD is a compilation of some sort (soundtrack, etc.).

Note that there is another field simply called COMPILATION that also takes on a value of 0 or 1. When I add these to my ITUNES library, ITUNES recognizes that these are compilations automatically. Quote from: garym on 21:12:47 I use MP3TAG to create an ITUNESCOMPILATION field with a value of '1' for compilation disks. I don't know if iTunes will read this tag and classify the songs as part of a compilation if someone imports the mp3's from my mix cd into iTunes, but if it doesn't work, at least it hasn't hurt anything beyond adding a few bytes of non-harmful data to each filesize.

I just used foobar2000 to stick a custom tag field on the mp3 files of my mix cd, so each file has a value of '1' in the field ITUNESCOMPILATION. For the record, I've only checked this in aac files coming out of iTunes so I don't know if foobar2000 would display the compilation tag from an iTunes mp3 file. Tracks from compilation albums ripped or tagged in iTunes show up in foobar2000 with a tag field titled ITUNESCOMPILATION (and '1' is written in the field).

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My interest is in that if I make a mix cd and put the mp3's in a zip file to give to friends who listen to music on their computers instead of on cd, should I try to put the iTunes Compilation stamp on there? I believe its usefulness is primarily an iTunes one. This is another area where a rule based music manager is useful.Quote from: ozmosis82 on 20:12:40 Check out:

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This is a lot of manual work, and it's something that needs to be done again and again as you add music. This makes the music player re-read your music files, picking up the change in Album Artist you applied earlier. Once the tagging is complete, typically you must tell your music player to 'rescan'. If this is the case, you may have to do a little more research to ensure the tag name is correct. Your tagger may obfuscate the underlying tag name that is being written to. If using MP3 tagging software, refer to the table above to decide which tags names to set. You will have to select all the tracks for a given album and find the option to change the Album Artist for all tracks. The best way to change these tags is to use a music tagger or use your music player. That's little better than having normal track artists! If there are even minor differences some music players will treat the two variations as different albums, and separate the tracks therein each album. It's important that the album artist tag is kept the same for all tracks on an album. For these tracks, set the Album Artist to something like 'Various Artists' (or whatever is appropriate in your language) and apply this title consistently. Otherwise, some music players will list each track artist and album name as a separate album.

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How to use the Album Artist tagĪlbum Artist tags should be applied for all compilations that have different track artists. What's right for one player is not necessarily right for another. Suffice to say, the upshot for us as music fans, is that all this gives us a headache when we want to change music players. Now, the ambiguities of music tagging could have its own blog post (or nine!) so I'll leave it there for now.

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It was down to the software writers and the collectors themselves to define it in a de facto manner. Unfortunately, no de jure specifications define it. Music collectors and music software writers realised there was a need for a tag like Album Artist. Rather, 'de facto' trends in tagging emerge which are backed one way or the other by the music players. While specifications exist for music tagging, they are not treated as 'de jure' formal specifications that must be abided. The source of some of these differences lie in the ambiguities arising from music tagging. Using the TPE2 field is arguably incorrect, because the TPE2 field was created to hold the performing band information.

Foobar's support for MP3, for instance, writes to the 'ALBUM ARTIST' field while others write to the TPE2 field. Different file formats such as MP3 and FLAC store Album Artist in different ways, and even for a given format different players can work differently.

Here's a table of the tag field names that each music player reads from/writes to when concerned with Album Artist.ĪLBUMARTIST, ALBUM ARTIST or MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMARTISTĪLBUMARTIST, ALBUM ARTIST, MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMARTIST The name of the tags change depending on the player and the music file format.

These 'tags' are name value pairs similar to 'albumname=Thriller'. Recall that Album Artist is a 'tag' written into a music file. Most do, but there are differences between them. We added the ability to fill in missing ALBUM ARTIST fields in version 20211207! Your music player and the Album Artist tagĪll this would be for naught if your music player of choice doesn't support Album Artist tags.

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