artist & album artist + autocorrect for album artist question

[rpm4fsu]

I am in the process of going through my songs and rerunning them through jaikoz to try and clean things up and bring some uniformity to the tags.

The artist and album artist field seems to be used in different ways by different people.

For classical music I like to put the composer in the artist field and the album artist field might or might not contain who is preforming the work. I like to store based on the composer where possible.

The problem is that when I import music into iTunes, iTunes likes to build the directory based on the the album artist, if available. I would rather have the directory based on the artist (composer). I cannot see a way to tell iTunes how to build the folder names.

The beauty of jaikoz is that I can roll my own.

So my solution is to swap album and album artist fields. Could you add a pre-built swap for artist and album artist. I know this can be done manually but it would be easier (at least for me) if there was a pre-built swap.

Could you add a autocorrector task that would work on the “album artist” field.

Just asking and understand if this is a rather low priority.

Thanks

Robert

[paultaylor]

The problem is that when I import music into iTunes, iTunes likes to build the directory based on the the album artist, if available. I would rather have the directory based on the artist (composer). I cannot see a way to tell iTunes how to build the folder names.

iTunes makes a copy of your file when it imports it, and then stores it in its own folder strcuture. Personally I would disable both these options they in iTunes/Advanced tab so you wouldnt have this problem . AFAIK it doesnt remove any functionality from iTunes.

So my solution is to swap album and album artist fields. Could you add a pre-built swap for artist and album artist.

yes, I’ll do this anyway because I caould see tyhis would be useful in a number of scenarios.

Could you add a autocorrector task that would work on the “album artist” field.

A correct Album Artist task, I could do it but the problem is with rearranging the Preferences/Local Correct/AutoMatch and AutoFormat windows to fit in teh reuired album artist columns.

Just asking and understand if this is a rather low priority.

Thanks

Robert

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