Re: A bug Adding audio files to the library ? by Bill
Bill
Fri Mar 21 14:44:06 PDT 2008
Thank you. Your observations got me into looking at mp3 metadata Tags and I
discovered that the "Album Artist" data in the file is actually the Section
Name rather than the Publication or actual author. WMP was not doing
anything wrong.
I went into WMP and displayed Albums and there were about 10 each with the
same name but different Artists. I changed the Artists to "The Economist"
and it reduced it to one Album. The interesting thing I had not considered
was that this change was propagated to the tag in the mp3 file. I had
thought these were just WMP tables.
Thanks again,
Bill-R
"Wilkes" <w3wilkes@hotmail.nospam.com> wrote in message
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> What do you get if you right click the mp3 in Explorer and go to
> properties? Contributing Artist is not available when going to properties
> in Explorer. If you then go to WMP11 and right click the mp3 and select
> Advanced Tag Editor and go to the Artist Tab?
>
> What I've found is that if Contributing Artist is not populated in the mp3
> then WMP11 will propagate Artist to Contributing Artist. This is OK for
> most albums where artist and Contributing Artist is Equal. On compilation
> type albums I've found that I can populate Artist with "Various" and then
> populate the Contributing Artist with the Artist for the song then all is
> well.
>
> The way I've found WMP11 to group stuff into a album is if the mp3 tags of
> Album are the same, Artist is the same, Year is the same (Year is not
> available in the WMP11 Advanced Tag Editor, but is available in the
> Explorer Properties editor) and Genre is the same then it will be grouped
> as a album in WMP11 and not pay attention to Contributing Artist for the
> grouping.
>
> On the Artist / Contributing Artist thing it is a pain because you cannot
> really tell if Contributing Artist is being displayed as a propagation
> from Artist or if it is actually explicitly populated. It would be nice if
> WMP11 used some method of letting you know this, maybe if Contributing
> Artist showed in a different color than the default black if it's not set
> and just showing what's in Artist.
>
> I realize this doesn't really answer your question, it's just the way that
> I've found that the tags in mp3's are handled by WMP11.
>
> Wilkes
>
> "Bill Rankin" <bkds_rankin@msn.com> wrote in message
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>>I add Economist Audio files to the WMP 11 Library so I can sync them to my
>>Sansa View. To get them into the Library I have to extract all the mp3
>>files from their individual section folders and put them together in one
>>folder which I title "Economist". I have previously defined this folder
>>as one to monitor in the "Add to Library" window. They get added to the
>>Library this way but not as expected.
>>
>> When I place the cursor over each audio file in Windows Explorer, the
>> information displayed is "Artist: The Economist", "Album Title: March
>> 8th - March 14 2008", "Track Number: 1" [etc].
>>
>> What WMP ends up with in the Library is as follows: Artist is each of the
>> Sections ("01 Introduction", "05 Briefings", etc). Album is "March 8th -
>> March 14 2008". Songs are each of the audio files eg. "10 Briefing -
>> India's Civil Service". Genre is "Books". Contributing Artist is "The
>> Economist".
>>
>> Actually WMP would be OK if the contents of "Artist" and "Contributing
>> Artist" were switched. This seems like a bug because WMP has the
>> correct info. I do not know how WMP extracts this info from the mp3 file
>> but it should do it in the same fashion as Windows Explorer. It does
>> not.
>>
>> Has anyone run into this problem? Is there a fix?
>>
>>
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