Re: The "artist" mp3 TAG appears to be written to "Authors" instead of "Album artist"

Robert,

Thank you very much for the information on setting the mp3 "Album artist" tag on Windows 7 in lame.

I use the command (below) and it worked perfectly!

lame.exe -V2 --tv "TPE2=artistName" --tc myComment a.wav a.mp3

Thanks again,
Tom


---- robert <[email protected]> wrote: 
> Hello Tom.
> 
> Am 06.01.2012, 00:36 Uhr, schrieb <[email protected]>:
> 
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I am running LAME 3.99.3 32bits on Windows 7 (I built latest code today  
> > using Visual Studio 2008)
> >
> > The "artist" mp3 TAG appears to be written to "Authors" instead of  
> > "Album artist"
> 
> 
> Since the introduction of ID3v2 in LAME, several years ago, we write
> artist into TPE1 frame [Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)]. If you want
> to have Microsoft Explorer show something as "Album artist", you
> have to add a TPE2 frame [Band/orchestra/accompaniment], for whatever
> reason.
> 
> http://www.id3.org/id3v2.3.0
> 
> 
> > The command I used was:
> > lame.exe -V2 --ta artistName --tc myComment a.wav a.mp3
> >
> > The value of "Comments" gets set successfully to "myComment"
> > The value for "Album artist" does not get set (is blank)
> > However, the value for "Authors" get set to "artistName"
> >
> > I thought the --ta flag would set the "Album artist" column?
> >
> > I am viewing the generated mp3 file TAG properties from Windows Explorer  
> > (Windows 7) by displaying the columns for "Album artist" and "Authors".
> >
> > Is there any way I can set "Album artist"?
> 
> 
> lame -V2 --tv "TPE2=MS shows me this as album artist" a.wav
> 
> ID3v2 actually doesn't specify an Album Artist frame. Foobar2000
> uses some user defined frame, that would look like:
> 
> lame -V2 --tv "TXXX=ALBUM ARTIST=Foobar shows this as Album Artist" a.wav
> 
> 
> > Thank you very much.
> > Tom
> 
> 
> Ciao Robert
> 
> 
> PS: Happy New Year to everyone listening!

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