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How to effectively use artist tags/handle different album/track dates?

I have been experimenting with different handling of album artist, artist and performer and am not entirely happy with any of my choices on how to best use them yet so I am looking for any suggestions which you may have on how you use these fields. I have a lot of early blues music which I am trying to document with as much historical information on artists, performers and dates, but I have plenty of recent music as well. So, I understand the expected use of "album artist" which is normally used with the "various artists" and then using the "artists" field on a track basis but have been contemplating how to treat "bands" vs. the individual "artists" in the band so that albums can get selected both by the "band" name as well as the individual band members as "artists", and then additional "performers".

How about using "album artist" for the band name and then the "artist" tag for the band members? What other ideas can you recommend for effective use of these fields? I know that they can do what I want, I just don't know that I've found the right combination yet.

How to effectively use artist tags/handle different album/track dates?

Reply #1 –
I am looking for suggestions on how to handle the date tag when the track and album release dates differ. This is an issue for compilation albums containing tracks from differing albums. Are there "official" fields for both track and album release dates, or is there some standard convention that should be used?

For now, I have created my own custom album release date field but if there is an "official" album release tag I would prefer using it instead.

How to effectively use artist tags/handle different album/track dates?

Reply #2 –
What audio format? What tag format?

Most have the ability to store this information in a sensible way (e.g. both requests are covered fully, and then some, in the official ID3v2.3 specification). The problem is finding software and hardware players that will handle (display, search, sort) anything more than a single album-artist entry and a single track-artist entry in a useful way. fb2k can work, but do you want to use a hardware player too?

Cheers,
David.

How to effectively use artist tags/handle different album/track dates?

Reply #3 –
Quote from: 2Bdecided on
What audio format? What tag format?

fb2k can work, but do you want to use a hardware player too?

David,
Thanks for the reply. Your post on tag mapping is what triggered my original post. I originally posted this in the fb2k general forum because I use fb2k as my audio library manager and wanted to hear from other fb2k users their experiences with how they used these fields together in fb2k for managing their libraries. My fb2k library is my master source, so getting fb2k "right" is what I am after. I do transcode and use hardware players from time to time, but that is not a high priority.

I archive all my music as single image flacs with flac tags, all created with EAC/React2.
 

How to effectively use artist tags/handle different album/track dates?

Reply #4 –
Quote from: mpuckett on
How about using "album artist" for the band name and then the "artist" tag for the band members? What other ideas can you recommend for effective use of these fields? I know that they can do what I want, I just don't know that I've found the right combination yet.


That's what I do.
If you browse your collection by tags, you might decide to duplicate the  band in the Artist tag
If you use a search box, this is in general not needed.

Date: in my FLAC's there is a tag Date
This is the release date of the album but you can probably manual edit it.
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