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Support => Questions => Topic started by: finsaah on March 31, 2020, 01:24:39 AM

Title: Album Artist shows in column field but is missing from tag
Post by: finsaah on March 31, 2020, 01:24:39 AM

I've found quite a few instances of this where the album artist is showing in the field in whatever view I'm in but is not present as a tag.  You can see this in the screenshots below.  


a)  why would this be happening?
b) how can I automatically find these and correct them all when I can't sort/filter by missing album artist?

(https://i.imgur.com/NnRoUUC.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/uKP5wBE.jpg)

Title: Re: Album Artist shows in column field but is missing from tag
Post by: frankz on March 31, 2020, 01:39:29 AM

When you fail to tag your albums with an album artist, MusicBee will display the Artist in its place for display purposes only.

You can find files that you failed to tag with an album artist by creating an auto playlist sourced from your music library with the criterion Album Artist has no value or a filter with that same single criterion.

Title: Re: Album Artist shows in column field but is missing from tag
Post by: finsaah on March 31, 2020, 01:57:34 AM

Quote from: frankz on March 31, 2020, 01:39:29 AM

When you fail to tag your albums with an album artist, MusicBee will display the Artist in its place for display purposes only.

You can find files that you failed to tag with an album artist by creating an auto playlist sourced from your music library with the criterion Album Artist has no value or a filter with that same single criterion.

Doing that doesn't show any files

Title: Re: Album Artist shows in column field but is missing from tag
Post by: frankz on March 31, 2020, 02:10:08 AM

Then you're doing something wrong, at least going the auto playlist route, because I tested it before I posted.  Didn't test the filter.

Title: Re: Album Artist shows in column field but is missing from tag
Post by: psychoadept on March 31, 2020, 05:24:11 AM

If album artist isn't present, MusicBee will show artist instead. You might check your version because I think there was a change related to this recently to make sure you could find files without album artist using frankz method.

Try updating to the beta version in my sig.

Title: Re: Album Artist shows in column field but is missing from tag
Post by: finsaah on April 09, 2020, 12:04:14 PM

Thanks - updating worked, now the auto playlist shows the missing album artist.