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Tag in EAC not Writing Correctly

I have EAC setup as described in the lame forum here:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/...hp/t28124.html

My switch line is:

-V 2 --vbr-new --add-id3v2 --pad-id3v2 --ta "%a" --tt "%t" --tl "%g" --ty "%y" --tn "%n" %s %d

The problem is I want various artist albums to have "Various Artists" as the artist tag in the mp3, but even when I uncheck the various box and write "Various Artists" it will write the individual name of the artist in the artist tag.

How do I fix this?

Tag in EAC not Writing Correctly

Reply #1 –
My first guess would be to change the command line to
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-V 2 --vbr-new --add-id3v2 --pad-id3v2 --ta "Various Artists" --tt "%t" --tl "%g" --ty "%y" --tn "%n" %s %d

I suggest you create a new profile for this as I don't know if there's any option in EAC to change the "Additional Commands" according to wether it's a cd with various artists or not. It works for the folders though.

Tag in EAC not Writing Correctly

Reply #2 –
Babaostyle, your URL is broken. If you want to copy it from another post, you should do so by right-clicking on it rather than copying what you seeing (a shortened version) as is.

Now to your question. LaserSokrates' suggestion works, but not without losing the track artists' names. A cleaner solution would be to have separate Album Artist and Track Artist entries. LAME doesn't make a distinction between the two, though.