how do i edit id3 tags to add two artists in kid3? (kid3.kde.org)

submitted 1 year ago by jackpot@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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; and / dont work but chatgpt says they should, e.g. 'John Doe; Jane Doe' should be seen as two artists but tehyre not and idk why

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[-] lemann@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

You've done everything correct - the semicolon is how to do it AFAIK.

However, most music players don't really support multiple artists in id3 tags anymore, I think windows media player is the only exception. Even Plex used to but it doesn't anymore.

I've noticed most songs just put (Ft. Artist1, artist2, artist3) at the end of the track title instead, containing the names/aliases of the other artists involved

[-] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I usually put 'Artist1 & Artist2' or 'Artist1, Artist2, & Artist3', and live with the sad truth that some Artists have multiple entries ('Artist1' & 'Artist1 & Artist2').

[-] federalreverse@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not sure if you'll find this helpful: Most player software will prefer the Album Artist field over Artist for sorting in the album view. If there is a feature artist on a specific track, you can fill in the two fields like this: Artist: Artist1 and Artist2 and Album Artist: Artist1. That will at least keep the entire album together.

[-] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

I already do that for albums and I thought about mentioning it. My problem is that I have a lot of songs outside of albums, where all artists would technically be the album artists.

[-] jackpot@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

id3 sounds like a very bottlenecked protocol, why not just allow for multiple artist tags wtf is this

[-] Knusper@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

You could consider converting your music library to OGG files. Instead of ID3, those use Vorbis Comments, which do allow multiple artist tags, and are significantly more flexible in general (for better or worse). There's other advantages, too, like them using less storage space.

However, do mind that even the most flexible standard can't do more than the music players you use. If those can't display and filter for multiple artists, you'll be out of luck.

And OGG is newer / not quite as popular, so it is quite possible that music players don't support it in full extent.

[-] jackpot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

foss software that supports editing that?

[-] Knusper@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Kid3 supports editing Vorbis Comments, too. 🙂

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