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Eli
Im trying to figure out how to list multiple artists in metaflac. Can it be done?

Another question, if you do have multiple artist fields and transcode to MP3 (or MP4...) how do the transcoders handle the other artist fields besides the main artist?
Eli
anyone? Ive done alot of searching and cant find the answer.
ChristianHJW
Maybe with OggFLAC ?
Eli
Cant get it to work with MAC either. How can I properly edit APEv2 tags since APE does support multiple artist fields correct?
Amadablam
I seem to have no problem using a command such as:

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metaflac --set-vc-field "ARTIST=John Doe" song.flac


Repeating that command with a different name

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metaflac --set-vc-field "ARTIST=Jane Doe" Song.flac


adds that tag to the comments. Then doing a metaflac --list shows:

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METADATA block #2
 type: 4 (VORBIS_COMMENT)
 is last: false
 length: 170
 vendor string: reference libFLAC 1.1.0 20030126
 comments: 8
   comment[0]: TITLE=Song
   comment[1]: ARTIST=John Doe
   comment[2]: ALBUM=Witness Protection
   comment[3]: TRACKNUMBER=1
   comment[4]: DATE=2004
   comment[5]: GENRE=Rock
   comment[6]: ARTIST=Jane Doe


I have no idea how various tag readers or transcoders will handle this, but I do believe that this is the way multiple artists were intended to be dealt with in FLAC tags.
kjoonlee
You won't need Ogg FLAC. Native FLAC's dialect of vorbis comments will suffice.

When transcoding, foobar2000's diskwriter will copy all relevant FLAC tags to the destination file, if possible. If you have foobar2000 set up to write APEv2, then I'm sure everything will go smoothly when making MP3s.

Foobar2000's tagger is quite useful too.
spase
Try to get Case to respond.

As far as I recall, the foobar2000 FLAC component uses a system like this:

TTITLE0 = track 1 title
TTITLE1 = track 2 title.


Not sure about artist fields tho. I think it is the same.

When loading the file, the component parses these tags and makes them appear as TITLE tags per each track inside the FLAC.

This is the only player I know of that supports this.

I have started using MKA container for this and other reasons.
kjoonlee
That's how vorbis comments work. Decent Vorbis plugins/programs and X-Fixer's in_flac for Winamp will all do the same.

edit: Um, maybe not.

I thought spase was talking about multiple tags with identical names, such as in ARTIST="Jane Doe" and ARTIST="John Doe." I didn't think he was referring to track titles on files that span multiple tracks.
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