Feature Request: Tag Update Tag Referencing

[Pepsican]

(12-09-2017 13:00)paultaylor Wrote:  My thoughts are that Track Artist is a real field for Pop/Rock tracks that usually matches what is on the cover but is a meta-metadata field for Classical that should be set to users preference i.e conductor; performers or as you want Composer.

Not correct. The AlbumArtist field in pop/rock is used for the name of the artist who released the album (i.e. DJ Khalid). It is usually single-value and contains one name only. The Artist field would be used at track level to list all the artists collaborating on the track, such as with duets and contributions like the vocals. It would be multi-value and contain DJ Khalid; Katy Perry; Pharell Williams. Artist is also important for collections such as your run-of-the-mill Greatest Hits Of The Year album.

Note that most metadata formats also support tags like AlbumArtistSort and ArtistSort to faciliate sorting by first name or last name.

(12-09-2017 13:00)paultaylor Wrote:  So you could do in tag editor by copying over from composer to artist column for classical releases only. You are then not deleting any data, and I think this is easier than trying to configure it in MinimServer. I should add you could also this in an automatic way with Songkong by setting Classical:Track Artist to Composer.

MP3Tag also has facilities to auto-fill tags with values.