"no artist" in tag -- flac

[parsifal9]

Hi Slimserver list,

for some albums, slimserver shows "no artist" and
"no album". However Amarok and Kid3 (tag editor) can
see these tags ie in slimserver

* Title: Garland Hirschi's Cows
* Artist: No Artist
* File Format: FLAC

while Amarok says
artist: Bimstein, Phillip
album: From A to Z


on another issue, when I try to search the forum, I
am offered an empty file called search.php for download rather
than a page of search results. strange


Bye
Rob

[Skittler]

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[jensboe]

Parsifal9, what is metaflac (command line tool for flac) telling you?

Jens

[parsifal9]

Hi jensboe,

is this what you mean?

plastic: metaflac --show-tag=artist Garland\ Hirschi\'s\ Cows.flac
ARTIST=Bimstein, Phillip


Bye
parsifal9

[parsifal9]

Hi SlimDevices list,


I have upgraded to SlimServer 7.0 (SqueezeCenter)
and the problem seems to have vanished i.e.

Garland Hirschi's Cows
Artist: Bimstein, Phillip
Album: From A to Z

all to the good! However SqueezeCenter seems to have a
few oddities of its own like not sorting artists by alphabetical order ie this is how it starts the artists list off

Adams, John
Berg, Alban
Amirkhanian, Charles
Piazzolla, Astor
Sallinen, Aulius
Britten, Benjamin

I am looking around for info on this one.

Bye
parsifal9.

[Zaragon]

Within the tag set there is one which can be used to determine the sort order. I don't know what it is called but it's something like ArtistSort.

Using your examples I expect that there is two tags for the wrongly ordered tracks, the others may also have them. eg:

Artist=Adams, John ArtistSort=Adams, John
Artist=Berg, Alban ArtistSort=Alban, Berg
Artist=Amirkhanian, Charles ArtistSort=Amirkhanian, Charles
Artist=Piazzolla, Astor ArtistSort=Astor, Piazzolla
Artist=Sallinen, Aulius ArtistSort=Aulius, Sallinen
Artist=Britten, Benjamin ArtistSort=Britten, Bengamin

Where present ArtistSort takes precidence over Artist in sorting but SqueezeCenter always displays the Artist tag, hence they look out of order but were actually correctly sorted according to the rules.

[parsifal9]

Hi Zaragon,

thanks, that's what it is. I have a tag called
MUSICBRAINZ_SORTNAME in many of the files. I suppose the
ripping software put it there (I didnt).

I cant see how to stop slimserver from using it, but it looks
like metaflac can remove it from all my files in one go.

Bye
parsifal9