MP3 tag - Album Artist equals TPE2
I really don’t care too much about the ID3 specifications I only want my audio files to be correctly displayed in various media players. One problem I came across is the “Album Artist” tag. This is a quite important tag since I like to sort my files by album. Usually this is no problem since all titles are performed by the same artist and thus the album artist equals the title artist. But as soon as you are having compilations this is not true anymore. In this case the album artist should be “Various” while the title artist fields reflect the actual artists. Furthermore, the “Album Artist” field is required to identify albums with the same name (e.g. “Best Of“). Otherwise, all titles would be part of the one album “Best of“.
So I checked the ID3 tag tools for Linux but I couldn’t find the “Album Artist” field. I checked out the specs for ID3 v2.4.0 but it didn’t help much either. Well, further searching the web with a search engine of your choice revealed that the “TPE2” field is used by media players such as Window Media Player and iTunes (>v7). This field/frame may usually be added through the advanced options or alike of a file.
I haven’t tested other players so far, but I will keep yous informed…
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