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Title: Weird Tagging issue
Post by: Labape on April 15, 2017, 08:29:08 PM
I'm having a weird issue... I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts.  I have a number of songs, that regardless of the tag (I have retagged them all in Tag & Rename) when I generate my DB The config shows the artist as "Various" so of course when I load the Jukebox, they show up in "V" and the Artist is listed as "Various Artists"

What could be causing that?
Title: Re: Weird Tagging issue
Post by: Mark Norville on April 15, 2017, 08:43:48 PM
Firstly it looks as if they are compilation albums. The screen shot does not show a great deal.

You would need to tick use album name on compilations, so that would show "I listen to crap music" rather than various artists.

I do not use this tagger, I use tagscanner and mp3tag

If I am tagging a compilation album, then I have it so that it matches the following

"I listen to crap music" album

filename 01 - this song is crap.mp3 - Title - this song is crap Artist - Another x factor winner - album artist - various artists album - I listen to crap music track - 01 year - 2300 Genre - Can you really call that music

Apart from that my config picture apart from not having using album on compilations, you need them all ticked.

Hope this helps.

If not I am having an early night, so I am going to try and put my head down, if I can't sleep then I will be back later on, so if you cannot get it sorted, just leave a post, and I will either catch it later, or tomorrow, but someone else might be online later as well, but bank holiday weekend, and I am the only sad git without a life lol

Regards

Mark
Title: Re: Weird Tagging issue
Post by: Labape on April 15, 2017, 09:01:58 PM
Are you saying I listen to Crap Music?  THANKS.

Actually, I think I have figured it out... these albums that are being listed as "Various Artists" all seem to have a song or two that got some weird phantom characters in their tags.  Don't know how those got generated, but removing them from the song fixes the issue. 
Title: Re: Weird Tagging issue
Post by: Mark Norville on April 16, 2017, 07:18:25 AM
It was just easier than thinking of a compilation name, you also have strip non alpha numeric characters or something like that in config, you can also tick that as well.

I just needed sleep, so a reply then bed was on the cards, and a nice 8 hour sleep for a change.

Glad you have got it sorted though.

Regards

Mark
Title: Re: Weird Tagging issue
Post by: Labape on April 16, 2017, 03:51:32 PM
Yea it was weird for some reason something added a random asian character to a bunch of the tags.  Dont know what it was or where it came from, but once i discovered it, problem solved. :)