WAV albumartist tag

[ligald]

Hi,

All my music files are in FLAC or WAV format. For tagging my WAV files, I'm currently using a specific naming scheme which is defined in Logitech Media Server as:

ARTIST_ALBUM_TRACK_GENRE

So all my WAV files name are of the sort ARTIST_ALBUM_TRACK_GENRE.wav

This works fine and all fields are properly recognized. I just want to add now the field "ALBUMARTIST":

ALBUMARTIST_ARTIST_ALBUM_TRACK_GENRE

This doesn't work, it seems that the "ALBUMARTIST" field is not properly recognized by the Media Server. Is there a another keyword tu use instead?

I tried with the FLAC files using the tag field "ALBUMARTIST" and it is properly managed and works fine.

Thanks

[emalvick]

At the beginning you say your files are named as

ARTIST_ALBUM_TRACK_GENRE.wav

so, do your files have the ALBUMARTIST out front, too? It seems like what you had working contradicts what you are trying to do. i.e. I don't see how if one is working the other would work, too. I've never actually tried the automatic tagging though.

[Mnyb]

It may be or not be an LMS bug.

But to minimise problems I suggest converting the wav's to Flac .

Or maybe actually tag the WAV files for real ( not using the guess tag function ) with tag&rename which is a pay app.
But one off the few that can tag WAV , SBS/LMS actually support WAV tags but they are not as good and widely supported as flac tags ( vorbis comments ).

[MrSinatra]

filename conventions should not be confused with or called "tagging" imo.

afaik, wavs, while supporting limited tagging, do not support an AA tag (aka field/frame)

i do not know if LMS feature of guessing tags based on filename structure works for album artist or not, but i wouldn't try to do it that way either. as suggested, it only makes sense to convert everything to FLAC, which then can be properly tagged, (and mp3tag can automate that tagging, using your filename conventions)

[Mnyb]

filename conventions should not be confused with or called "tagging" imo.

afaik, wavs, while supporting limited tagging, do not support an AA tag (aka field/frame)

i do not know if LMS feature of guessing tags based on filename structure works for album artist or not, but i wouldn't try to do it that way either. as suggested, it only makes sense to convert everything to way, which then can be properly tagged, (and mp3tag can automate that tagging, using your filename conventions)

Flac you mean ? This is the sensible option ?

[MrSinatra]

Flac you mean ? This is the sensible option ?

yep, i hate when i mistype! thx!

[ligald]

At the beginning you say your files are named as

ARTIST_ALBUM_TRACK_GENRE.wav

so, do your files have the ALBUMARTIST out front, too? It seems like what you had working contradicts what you are trying to do. i.e. I don't see how if one is working the other would work, too. I've never actually tried the automatic tagging though.

Hi,

I also updated the filenames by adding the ARTISTALBUM in front, so I have now the following naming scheme:

ARTISTALBUM_ARTIST_ALBUM_TRACK_GENRE.wav

But the keyword ARTISTALBUM is not recognized by the media server.

Of course, converting WAV files into FLAC will solve the problem...however it should also work this way.

[JJZolx]

That wouldn't surprise me. I doubt that the path/file name parsing code has been updated in years. It probably predates the concept of the ALBUMARTIST role in the server code.

[aubuti]

That wouldn't surprise me. I doubt that the path/file name parsing code has been updated in years. It probably predates the concept of the ALBUMARTIST role in the server code.

That's probably right. Also, it would be guaranteed not to work if ligald really did put ARTISTALBUM (as written in the post) instead of ALBUMARTIST.

[Mnyb]

That's probably right. Also, it would be guaranteed not to work if ligald really did put ARTISTALBUM (as written in the post) instead of ALBUMARTIST.

Excellent Thats how we humans read ALBUMARTIST it is...

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