There is now just one more thing that I can't figure out. Is it possible to get REACT to create Album Artist tags for single artist albums (i.e. in addition to the ones created for VA albums) in order to facilitate sorting by Album Artist?
Hi phaedra
Here are the instructions for editing your "react-image.cfg" to set "album artist" tag in your FLAC and MP3 track files :
In EAC then press ALT+F3. Scroll down untill you come to the "REM ---- Tracks ----" section.
Under the "flac_tracks" section, then you change this line :
IF @various@==1 SET VA_tag=-T $qalbum artist=@VA@$q
To instead :
SET VA_tag=-T $qalbum artist=@cdartist@$q
Under the "lame_tracks" section, then you change this line :
IF @various@==1 SET VA_tag=--user-text $q[album artist]@VA@$q --frame $qTPE2:@VA@$q
To instead :
SET VA_tag=--user-text $q[album artist]@cdartist@$q --frame $qTPE2:@cdartist@$q
The above line will by default both make an ID3v2.3 TXXX frame with the description "album artist" and an ID3v2.3 TPE2 frame(a "band" tag). If you only want an "album artist" TXXX frame, then use this line instead :
SET VA_tag=--user-text $q[album artist]@cdartist@$q
Or if you only want a TPE2 frame :
SET VA_tag=--frame $qTPE2:@cdartist@$q
Edit: To elaborate a little further... Different apps use different ID3v2 frames for defining the "album artist" tag. There isn't defined an "album artist" frame in the ID3v2 spec. so e.g. foobar2000 sets the "album artist" tag by using a TXXX frame with the description "album artist", but e.g. winamp sets it with a TPE2 frame. If you use foobar2000, then i would recommend only setting the "album artist" TXXX frame and if you use winamp, then i would recommend you to set a TPE2 frame and if you use a combination of both, then set both of them.