"various artists" - correct tags, do capital letters matter?

case errors in track/album/artist titles can be fixed. report here.

as for the 'Various Artists' issue, one thing they appear to have begun doing recently is to list the artists beside the tracks in affected albums for clarity sake, eg compilations, soundtracks, all-star tributes, etc.

on top of that, these said tracks have also been 'repatriated' to their respective artists' music directory, rather than the previous 'various artists' catch-all directory (one example). (this may not have been done yet for all cases, though.) so the 'various artists' thing will exist only as an ad hoc grouping, and not the nonexistent artist that it was.

when that's all done, kludgy titles like "Various Artists – Romance at Sunset (The Nashville Symphony feat. conductor: Kenneth Schermerhorn)", where the artist is appended to the title, will very likely give way to something tidier like the track "Romance at Sunset" attributed to "The Nashville Symphony feat. conductor: Kenneth Schermerhorn" but included in some album comprising said 'various artists'.

there's not much you can do presently about mistagged tracks streaming from last.fm, but you can help things along by ensuring the songs in your itunes music library that you scrobble have the correct id3 tags (you can check this at www.musicbrainz.org) so that your correct scrobbled data can be gathered by the servers and added to the last.fm database.

ok, evidently, you already have the correct artist The White Birch in your library as well as their album Come Up for Air in this page. so all else aside, your scrobbles should go in this page now.

so the only conclusion i can come up with is that those 600+ scrobbles of 'come up for air' attributed to 'various artists' are historical data (i briefly skimmed through the 7 days to 12 mths charts and didn't find it in those) and perhaps sometime more recently, this problem was then corrected, and the subsequent 179 scrobbles began landing on the proper page. at least, that's my guess.

not much can be done at the moment as far as merging the scrobbling data goes, maybe later on. but at the very least, the problem shouldn't happen anymore now?

Hi, I would like to know how to add tags for album like this:
fmera said:
one example.

I had this album James Bond and when I add tags of that album and artist - for ex. Monty Norman Orchestra, it doesn't work. It says, that there is no almub like this - and the name is right.....

thank you...

m.

On my last.fm window/player on my computer (the music is played by winamp) - it doesn't show the image of the album and when I click on the name of the album I see this, even if here I can see the album.
And I already have some soundtracks album on my list and it worked...

The album works only, when I put there "Various artist" but I want there the real artist and they are shown there.

fmera said:
i'm not fully clear about the problem you've mentioned with your player, but the first link you gave (this) is incorrect.

that's the problem - that it is incorrect...

In the track are these tags:
Artist: Monty Norman Orchestra
Album: The Best of Bond... James Bond
Name of the track: James Bond Theme

And the player don't recognize the album. I know, that it isn't album of Monty Norman orchestra. But at the album, which is under "Various Artists", there is written the name of Monty Norman Orchestra. And it is there as a link, so I thought, that if there it is written it should be written also in my library/or in my player... and in my library it looks like this. So it doesn't reconize the album even if the album recognize the artist and the track...

It isn't so important, but I was just wandering, if it's possible to put it somehow together - the album and the artist...

a lot... :-)