Howdy,
I recently added 3 new releases to my phone and even after editing tags in multiple editors, the album artist tag is still saying “Various Artists.” I have attached a log from my most recent sync. The releases in question are LORE LTD 008, 009, and 010. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Log name is donpritchtagissue.
Upload description: Donpritchtagissue
Local device
Do not forget to clear tag cache on the provider before sync as some tools/devices do not update the modified date.
If still an issue, upload those songs to check the tags. https://upload.symfonium.app then notify here.
Is this the “clear media info cache” option in advanced settings? If so, I did that and ran another sync with the same issue occuring. Also, I really appreciate the support and the work you’ve put into making a quality audio player like Symfonium.
Uploaded one of those albums to that link you posted.
No it’s the clear tag cache in the provider settings as written.
And in all cases :
You have another Album artist tag with various probably causing this.
Do you know how you reached that status ?
Gotcha. My bad, I was looking in the wrong spot. I have a ton of various artist releases where the album artist is Various Artists and artist is the actual name of the artists, so maybe that is why. Cleared cache and still having the issue.
Have you checked the tags with a proper tool like kid3 those files have a tag with various in them so it’s kinda expected behavior.
Thanks for the heads up on that tag editor. I wasn’t able to see that various tag in any of the other tag editors that I’ve used. First time coming across tracks with more than 2 artist tags. Thanks again.
Hey tolriq, what’s the software name in this pic? Looks helpful.
It’s written in the post just above 
kid3
Even if the content of the ALBUM ARTIST tag had been correct, the tag itself would be wrong for id3 tags in mp3 files.
ALBUMARTIST is stored as TPE2, while ALBUM ARTIST leads to the creation of a custom TXXX field.
Here I created both in a test file in Mp3tag:
When inspecting this in a hex editor you can see that “Kings of Convenience right” was stored as TPE2.
While “Kings of Convenience wrong” ended up in a custom TXXX field.
The really annoying part is that many players support both TPE2 AND the TXXX field ALBUM ARTIST and having both present can lead to confusion and unwanted behavior.
kid3 also displays them differently.
TPE2 is correctly displayed as “Album Artist”, while ALBUM ARTIST has no mapping since it’s a custom tag.
I have created a standard action in Mp3tag that deletes the ALBUM ARTIST tag if an ALBUMARTIST tag (which is internally mapped to TPE2 for id3.2 tags) is present to avoid these problems.
