MinimServer Forum - Problem with multiple artists in MP3s, but not in FLAC

Hi,

I'm fairly new to MinimServer, and am having issues getting multiple artists to work in MP3 files, though they work fine in FLAC files.

In both MP3 and FLAC files, I use mp3tag to create multiple artists with the '\\" separator. Extended tag information confirms multiple artist tags.

As an example, for tracks from Jesus Christ Superstar, I use the following in the Artist definition:

Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice\\Andrew Lloyd Webber\\Tim Rice

When the file is a FLAC file, it shows up correctly under all 3 artist name variations. However, for MP3 files, I only see the first one.

My relevant settings are as follows:

indexTags: Artist, All Artists, Date, Genre, Composer, Conductor, Orchestra
mergeFolderAlbums: false
tagOptions: Album.sortTags={Album, Artist
tagCustom: Composer.displayRole={artist}
tagFormat: Artist.displayFormat={$artist$orchestra$conductor^^^ ; }

Am I doing something wrong or missing something?

Thanks in advance for any help.

(23-12-2013 09:05)VivekSub94563 Wrote: [ -> ]Hi,

I'm fairly new to MinimServer, and am having issues getting multiple artists to work in MP3 files, though they work fine in FLAC files.

In both MP3 and FLAC files, I use mp3tag to create multiple artists with the '\\" separator. Extended tag information confirms multiple artist tags.

As an example, for tracks from Jesus Christ Superstar, I use the following in the Artist definition:

Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice\\Andrew Lloyd Webber\\Tim Rice

When the file is a FLAC file, it shows up correctly under all 3 artist name variations. However, for MP3 files, I only see the first one.

My relevant settings are as follows:

indexTags: Artist, All Artists, Date, Genre, Composer, Conductor, Orchestra
mergeFolderAlbums: false
tagOptions: Album.sortTags={Album, Artist
tagCustom: Composer.displayRole={artist}
tagFormat: Artist.displayFormat={$artist$orchestra$conductor^^^ ; }

Am I doing something wrong or missing something?

Thanks in advance for any help.

This is a known issue with ID3v2.3 tags. You should be able to solve it by changing the tag format in your MP3 files to ID3v2.4. You can do this tag conversion using dbPoweramp, and there's a setting in Mp3tag to write tags as ID3v2.4 instead of ID3v2.3.

(23-12-2013 09:19)simoncn Wrote: [ -> ]
(23-12-2013 09:05)VivekSub94563 Wrote: [ -> ]Hi,

I'm fairly new to MinimServer, and am having issues getting multiple artists to work in MP3 files, though they work fine in FLAC files.

In both MP3 and FLAC files, I use mp3tag to create multiple artists with the '\\" separator. Extended tag information confirms multiple artist tags.

As an example, for tracks from Jesus Christ Superstar, I use the following in the Artist definition:

Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice\\Andrew Lloyd Webber\\Tim Rice

When the file is a FLAC file, it shows up correctly under all 3 artist name variations. However, for MP3 files, I only see the first one.

My relevant settings are as follows:

indexTags: Artist, All Artists, Date, Genre, Composer, Conductor, Orchestra
mergeFolderAlbums: false
tagOptions: Album.sortTags={Album, Artist
tagCustom: Composer.displayRole={artist}
tagFormat: Artist.displayFormat={$artist$orchestra$conductor^^^ ; }

Am I doing something wrong or missing something?

Thanks in advance for any help.

This is a known issue with ID3v2.3 tags. You should be able to solve it by changing the tag format in your MP3 files to ID3v2.4. You can do this tag conversion using dbPoweramp, and there's a setting in Mp3tag to write tags as ID3v2.4 instead of ID3v2.3.

That worked. Thank you!