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| From | "Kevin Gandel" <oddsmanink@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | mp3 ID3 tag question (relates to SOTT and other compilation cd's) |
| Date | Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:56:48 -0400 |
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sorry for a slightly off-topic question, but here goes.
I'm in the process of encoding all my CDs as mp3s for playing on my computer, IPOD and networked DVD player.
The IPOD and DVD player rely heavily on ID3 tags.
Now, for your regular CD, thats no problem. All the songs on the CD are by the same artist so they get
lumped together by artist and on the correct album under all the correct headings.
The problem i'm running into is on compilation CDs or mix CD (such as SOTT). I want to keep the songs together on their respective albums while searching, yet also want the ID3 tag to display the correct artist.
The way I have been doing it now is the following:
Artist: SOTT
Album Title: SOTT #: _Album Title_
Song Title: _artists_ - _song title_
This is great for searching for the specific SOTT album, but sucks when trying to find a specifric song by a specific artists.
However, I like this type of organization.
So my question....is there a way with ID3 tags to mark that something is part of a compilation and have them all lumped together under the same artist/album when doing a search? yet the ID3 tags will display the actual artist info correctly (instead of just SOTT as I have it now).
at home I use iTunes and Winamp. I rip with CDEx and use TagScanner and iTunes to edit tags.
thanks!
-kev
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