Currently XBMC (as of 13A4) parses and stores a set of metadata tags from MP4 (aka iTunes) music files (such as M4A) into the music library / database. From testing it appears when multiple instances of the "album artist" tag (aART) exist in the metadata, only the last occurrence is saved in the data base.
I have been unable to find any spec documentation to see if multiple instances of aART tag is allowed or prohibited. Looking at other software, some save the first instance (eg Windows 7 file explorer), some the last like XBMC (eg MediaMonkey 4), and some all (eg MP3Tag).
I propose that XBMC music tag scanner / database editor be modified to read and save all album artist (aART) tag instances in M4A (and other file containers using iTunes-style tags) in the same fashion as is done with FLAC (Vorbis comments) ALBUMARTIST and APEv2 in MP3
scott s.
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I have been unable to find any spec documentation to see if multiple instances of aART tag is allowed or prohibited. Looking at other software, some save the first instance (eg Windows 7 file explorer), some the last like XBMC (eg MediaMonkey 4), and some all (eg MP3Tag).
I propose that XBMC music tag scanner / database editor be modified to read and save all album artist (aART) tag instances in M4A (and other file containers using iTunes-style tags) in the same fashion as is done with FLAC (Vorbis comments) ALBUMARTIST and APEv2 in MP3
scott s.
.