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Tagging albums with various artists

I've been looking around for specific info on tagging songs on my soundtracks. All my albums are ripped in vorbis format, so I don't know if the tag supports the ALBUM ARTIST field, but I suppose that the info would be stored in foobar's database if the vorbis tag itself didn't support it.

I'm just a little confused about the specifics. Do I put "Various Artists" in a field called ALBUM ARTIST, then put the actual performer in the ARTIST field?

Tagging albums with various artists

Reply #1 –
I'd put 'VA' in the %ALBUM ARTIST% field and yes, Vorbis Comments support any fieldname you want.
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Tagging albums with various artists

Reply #2 –
Cool. Thanks. Do iTunes encoded .m4a (aac in an mp4 wrapper, I believe) files support a various artists tag, or will those only be stored by foobar's database?

Also, my current default sort string is:

Code: [Select]
%ARTIST% - %ALBUM% - $num(%TRACKNUMBER%,3) - %TITLE%


How would I change that to ensure that the various artist albums get sorted properly?

Tagging albums with various artists

Reply #3 –
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How would I change that to ensure that the various artist albums get sorted properly?

Depending on how you tag your files exactly I would say.  In case you use either a various tag or an album artist tag to store the information in you want displayed instead of artist in your main formatting you could sort your files by
Code: [Select]
$if2(%various%,%ARTIST%) - %ALBUM% - $num(%TRACKNUMBER%,3) - %TITLE%
or
Code: [Select]
$if2(%album artist%,%ARTIST%) - %ALBUM% - $num(%TRACKNUMBER%,3) - %TITLE%
or even
Code: [Select]
$if3(%album artist%,%various%,%ARTIST%) - %ALBUM% - $num(%TRACKNUMBER%,3) - %TITLE%