by komarek » Tue Nov 29, 2016 4:07 pm
Lowlander,
Thanks. I appreciate your help with this puzzle. I think the problem is that MM is not actually stripping the second and subsequent values from the tags BEFORE doing the FLAC to M4A conversion. Because MM retains all the data in the tags, the ipod interprets the data that's sent over, and does whatever it wants. (btw I deleted the previously installed codec pack, so this is native MM behavior).
Here's what happened when I tried auto-syncing a few discs.
One had multiple artists -- In my mm database, some tracks had (Conductor;Orchestra), others had (Soloist;Conductor;Orchestra) and all tracks showed "Conductor" as Album Artist. The ipod translated this as a compilation with "various artists" --- which is different from MM's view of the ipod database
Another CD in the series had just (Conductor;Orchestra) tracks and all had Conductor as Album Artist. The ipod showed "Conductor" as album artist -- the same as MM's view of the ipod database.
So I had CD1 and CD2 of a multi-disc set showing up as different Album Artist compilations -- even though I specified a single Album Artist for both.
A third had multiple "Album Artists" but all the tracks had Artist1;Artist2, and the disk came out as an album by Artist1.
For all of these tracks, the genre was Classical and the "type" was set to Music.
The answer to the puzzle, i think, is that MM is retaining data in the FLAC to M4A conversion that it should not be retaining, given that there is an option to remove the second and subsequent artist and genre in the tracks. The way I fix this is to edit the ipod database after the sync, which shouldn't be necessary.
--pk---
Lowlander,
Thanks. I appreciate your help with this puzzle. I think the problem is that MM is not actually stripping the second and subsequent values from the tags BEFORE doing the FLAC to M4A conversion. Because MM retains all the data in the tags, the ipod interprets the data that's sent over, and does whatever it wants. (btw I deleted the previously installed codec pack, so this is native MM behavior).
Here's what happened when I tried auto-syncing a few discs.
One had multiple artists -- In my mm database, some tracks had (Conductor;Orchestra), others had (Soloist;Conductor;Orchestra) and all tracks showed "Conductor" as Album Artist. The ipod translated this as a compilation with "various artists" --- which is different from MM's view of the ipod database
Another CD in the series had just (Conductor;Orchestra) tracks and all had Conductor as Album Artist. The ipod showed "Conductor" as album artist -- the same as MM's view of the ipod database.
So I had CD1 and CD2 of a multi-disc set showing up as different Album Artist compilations -- even though I specified a single Album Artist for both.
A third had multiple "Album Artists" but all the tracks had Artist1;Artist2, and the disk came out as an album by Artist1.
For all of these tracks, the genre was Classical and the "type" was set to Music.
The answer to the puzzle, i think, is that MM is retaining data in the FLAC to M4A conversion that it should not be retaining, given that there is an option to remove the second and subsequent artist and genre in the tracks. The way I fix this is to edit the ipod database after the sync, which shouldn't be necessary.
--pk---