Whats up with Music MetaData!?!?!

[timeslip1974 15]

After importing my music collection I noticed under Album artists as series of album artists listed as rt,rti,rtis,rtist and rtists which never showed up on anything else ive imported the same collection too. I thought ok i`ll go though each of my 743 albums and correct and update metadata for each and everyone of them - Which took over 6 hours. I deleted the library and recreated the library and reimported and ive the same  rt,rti,rtis,rtist and rtists attached to various albumn and artist. What the actual hell ?

[Luke 42078]

Hi, have you checked the tags embedded in your music files?

[timeslip1974 15]

Yes I spent 6 hours making sure each and everyone one was correct

[Luke 42078]

Those values had to come from somewhere as the server won't just make them up. You probably have them embedded in some of your files without realizing it.

[timeslip1974 15]

 

 

 

 

I have to disagree, the screenshots are just one example

[ryandavidg 30]

If I may make a suggestion, every time I've had weird problems with tags/metadata I've eventually traced it to having multiple tag formats, sometimes with conflicting info. For example, FLAC with both vorbis and ID3 tags (if one has enabled that option when ripping with EAC or other programs), or occasionally MP3 files with more than one version of ID3 - I had some I had ripped many years ago and had retagged over time and ended up with problems.

 

The above screenshot shows that mp3tag has found both ID3v1 and ID3v2.3 tags in the file, but displays the one before the brackets - ie ID3v2.3. Just to eliminate bad ID3v1 tags as a source of the problem I would 'select all/copy and paste' the tags in mp3tag, assuming it is set to overwrite both versions in tools-options-tags-mpeg. Or I would use something like Foobar which has a tickbox for each ID3 version so it's easy to just remove one of the versions. Could be interesting if one removed the ID3v2.3 tags (which you have ensured are correct) on that file and could then look at what's in the v1s.

 

Just a thought, as this worked for me in the past.

Edited August 4, 2018 by ryandavidg

[Luke 42078]

Exactly, @@ryandavidg is correct.

[Deathsquirrel 745]

Also note that there are any number of tags that mp3tag doesn't display by default.  The most common one to cause this is AlbumArtist and similar tags.  Sure, you showed us the Album Artist tag but take a look at your extended tags.  You may be pulling the junk from there.  Delete it if so.