GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 690299
Improve handling of ARTIST and PERFORMER fields in Vorbis tags
Last modified: 2021-05-26 09:51:53 UTC
As discussed on the mailing list: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/easytag-list/2012-December/msg00008.html EasyTAG maps the Artist and Original Artist text entry fields to comment fields in a way that is inconsistent with the Vorbis comment specification: http://www.xiph.org/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html For popular music, the rough logic should be that if an original artist is given in addition to an artist, the original artist should be stored in the "ARTIST" field and the performing artist (simply ‘Artist’ in the UI) should be stored in the "PERFORMER" field. For simpler handling, it would make sense to rename the ‘Original Artist’ text entry field to ‘Performer’. For classical music, the composer should be stored in the "ARTIST" field and the performers should be stored in the "PERFORMER", which would also match the Vorbis specification if the UI field is renamed.
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