Question about the licence model and browsing through music

[simbun]

Don't you just love mp3!

I wrote compilation=1 to an mp3 with foobar and mp3tag to ID3v2.4, and they both worked (I have your setup replicated this end), although looking at the actual mp3 headers, foobar wrote the tag TXXX.Compilation and mp3tag wrote the tag TCMP. What tag editor are you using?

Could you look at the headers of the mp3 using an ASCII hexdump to see exactly what's being stored?

I don't know what platform you're on, but the easiest way would be to use:

Code:

hexdump -C 01.mp3 > mp3.log

If you're on Windows maybe HxD would work for you.

If you then open mp3.log you should be able to see something like the attached image. If you can't find the compilation flag, it may be easier to set Compilation=Music-Guy in the mp3 and then create the log with the same command and search for Music-Guy.

The attached image is of the file written by mp3tag and shows TCMP=1.



By the way, at some point we may need to evaluate your use of just Artist as I noticed you said you've populated AlbumArtist='Various Artists'.

From the online help:

Quote:The Artist and AlbumArtist tags are indexed specially, as follows:

The Artist index provides main artist information. It contains AlbumArtist tag values for albums that have this tag and Artist tag values otherwise. This index is included by default and can be excluded by removing Artist from indexTags.
The All Artists index provides complete artist information. It contains Artist tag values only, not AlbumArtist tag values. This index is included by default and can be excluded by removing All Artists from indexTags.
The AlbumArtist index contains AlbumArtist tag values only, not Artist tag values. This index is excluded by default and can be included by adding AlbumArtist to indexTags.