What is the difference between album artist and artist?
Album is simply the name of the album where the song is from while album artist is the name of the band or artist that released the said album. The album artist is usually the artist that released the album and is common to all the tracks in the album.
What does album artist mean in iTunes?
Album Artist is the main artist (or band) under whose name the album was released. Artist field can include not only the main artist, but also gues artist, or featured artist. In sorting order, Album Artist takes precedence in most views, but if there’s no Album Artist entered, the sort will use Artist.
What is a contributing artist?
Contributing Artist (the names of the artists that performed the song)
How does Last.fm Count albums?
On Last.fm, if a song has the same title and artist tag but different album tags, it will be counted as the same song when counting its scrobbles. So not using the album tag to match songs would make it accurate to what’s on Last.fm.
Who is the featured artist?
The term “featured artist” refers to the group or individual most prominently featured on a sound recording, track or album.
What is the relationship between album and song?
An album is a release with six tracks or more, or longer than 25 minutes. A single is five songs or less, so long as its not more than 25 minutes in length.
What ID3 tag does iTunes use for albums?
iTunes uses an ID3 tag called “Album Artist”, and for one album to be actually grouped as an album in iTunes, both the Album Name and Album Artist must be the same. As far as I’m concerned, Album Artist isn’t an official ID3 tag, and from the ID3 libraries I’ve seen so far, none supported “Album Artist”.
What is the difference between “album artist” and “Artist” tags?
The difference is between the “Artist” tag and the “Album Artist” tag is really quite simple. The “Artist” tag is the artist(s) as they appear on the CD. For example on Ben Harper’s live album “Live From Mars” the album is credited as “Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals” so that is what the “Artist” tag would be.
Is there a way to add tags to an album?
There are plenty of tags (Mood, Occasion, Genre) built right in, and readily able to be browsed and sorted in MB that are more appropriate. Or, more accurately, are actually appropriate. You can use the “Additional Tagging and Reporting Tools” plugin to move those tags to an appropriate tag and then use Album Artist for album artists.
What does “artist” mean on a CD?
The “Artist” tag is the artist (s) as they appear on the CD. For example on Ben Harper’s live album “Live From Mars” the album is credited as “Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals” so that is what the “Artist” tag would be.
