Copy the value of the "Artist" metadata into the "Album Artist" ... ?

klint,

thanks for the info! i wasnt aware there was an addon out there that did it.. SWEET!

Michael, it seems that there is a flaw in the Metadata Tools currently,that prevents the AlbumArtist to be written to the file itself.
But you can use the "Save tags" tab from the "Tagger" extension do write DB tags to the files, as a workaround.

AH SWEET! Thanks Klint! I forgot about Tagger! That's definitely more efficient than using Vandelay since you can select the ones you want!

I have asked the author of Tagger to add some additional features to his extension, one being the copy of Artist into empty AlbumArtist, so that one extension only is needed (Tagger seems to be more complete and more frequently updated than Metadata Tools these days)

I'm happy to tell you that the Tagger extension has just been updated by its author, Horazont, following many users's requests. And thanks to his very good work, the following feature are now available and working well:

Features:
- Rename files based on tags (using token/placeholders)
- Set tags based on filename
- Set tags massively on a selection of tracks, by using tokens/placeholders to copy one tag to another one (very useful to copy Artist into Album Artist, for instance)
- Replace a substring by another in any tag for a selection of tracks
- Select a list of tracks and reset their track numbers by auto incrementation (with
offset)... very useful to retag podcasts in my opinion
- Save tag values from Songbird database to track files (see option below)

Options for advance users:
- option to avoid the confirmation popup "Do you want to update x tracks"?
- option to autosave any change done by Tagger to the file (no need to use the "Save" feature)

This makes the tagging very very easy and powerful in Songbird.

Set it like this (make sure Keep existing tags is unchecked).


Then save 'em!