Album Artist will be blank when converting with Lame XP

[Cibomatto2002]

I already have it filled out but Lame XP shows it blank when converting. Could you guys add Album Artist to the meta data?

[lordmulder]

Tags you fill in on the "Meta Data" tab take precedence over meta tags from the original/input file.

If you leave this just blank, it will take meta tags from the original/input file, if available.

Go to the "Source Files" tab and click "Show Details" to see what has been detected from the original/input file(s).

[Cibomatto2002]

This is all I see i don't see anything about Album Artist only Artist.

here is Mp3tag

[lordmulder]

If the MP3 file that you are showing on your screenshot is your original/input file (which I am assuming), then the "Title", the "Artist" and the "Album" name have been detected correctly by LameXP (MediaInfo).

These information will be re-embedded into the output file, to the extend supported by the selected output format. As you did not show us the LameXP encoder log, I cannot say whether this worked as expected or not.

There are no "Genre" or "Year" tags in the original/input file, as confirmed by Mp3tag. Consequently these information will not be embedded into the output file by LameXP, unless you enter them manually on the "Meta Data" tab.

[Cibomatto2002]

I never fill out Genre or Year that's why its empty. I will get the encoder log Later today I'm at work right now. If you would recode a song with lame xp then open it with mp3 tag you would see the Album Artist is empty I use mp3 tab to put in the missing info on the Album Artist I'm on windows 11 if that helps.

[lordmulder]

Sorry, you "problem" is not clear to me.

Again: LameXP will only re-embed meta tags into the output file that have already been present in the original input file. Well, that plus whatever you have entered manually on the "Meta Data" tab.

According to your sreenshots, your original input file only contains "Title", "Album" and "Artist" tags, but no "Genre" or "Year" tags. Consequently those three tags (plus whatever you have entered manually on the "Meta Data" tab) are the only tags that you can expect to be re-embedded in the generated output file.

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So, what exactly is your problem? 🤔

1. LameXP did not detect meta tags from the original input file that it should have detected
2. LameXP did detect the meta tags from the original input file, but these were not re-embedded into the output file
3. LameXP did not embed meta tags into the output file which you had manually entered on the "Meta Data" tab

[Cibomatto2002]

The problem I have is lame xp will not fill in the Album Artist it just fills in Artist the mp3tag picture I uploaded I filled it in already.

[lordmulder]

Sorry, the meta data model used by LameXP does not destinguish between "Artist" and "Album Artist".

LameXP supports a large number output formats and an even larger number of input formats, which means that we have N×M possible "paths" for the conversions. The internal meta data model of LameXP was created to be a kind of a "least common denominator" of what all the various input/output formats support as meta information...

[Cibomatto2002]

Thanks for your time. Sorry I was not plane enough. I'm not really good at telling people about things.