GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 130478
support for track artist (performer) and disk artist (artist)
Last modified: 2018-05-24 10:27:58 UTC
I use the following to encode and tag flac files: -V -8 -T artist=%A -T album=%d -T title=%n -T tracknumber=%t -T date=%y -T performer=%a -T genre=%G -T description=tgnb -o %m %w Notice the seperate fields for artist and performer This is useful for ripping CD's where the disc's artist is a DJ (Paul Oakenfold, Fatboy Slim etc) but they are mixing songs by various other performers. Rhythmbox currently only supports the "artist" tag used to identify the artist of a CD but not that of a track. Thus it is not possible to display the performer of a track if it is not the same as the disc artist. It would be useful to have the option to display the track's performer also.
*** Bug 126584 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 133240 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I was thinking about this today, and realised something. Your music has the tags "artist=Album Artist" and "performer=Track Artist" - mine tend to be the other way around, "artist=Track Artist" and "Disc Artist=Album Artist". Does anyone know if there is a "standard" on which one is the canonical way?
According to the vorbis spec[1], performer and artist tags say nothing about said persons' relation to the CD but only to the track -- i.e. it doesn't matter whether they're involved with all of the tracks or just a few. These tags just indicate the role of them -- i.e. whether they have composed it, or just played an instrument. E.g. one example out of my collection: album=Murray Perahia plays Bach artist=Johannn Sebastian Bach title=Concerto for Flute, Violin and Clavier in A minor, BWV 1044 - 1. Allegro performer=Academy of St. Martin in the Fields performer=Jaime Martin, Flute ... That's the way I unterstand it, YMMV. [1] http://xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html
I have a music collection that's almost entirely classical and without the performer, I can't tell the difference between performances of Beethoven's 5th Symphony. This renders RB almost entirely useless to me, as I tend to collect multiple performances of a given work.
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