I’m using Musicbee as my main player and I’ve come across an issue where it doesn’t play very well with Picard. I’ve created a thread about this in Musicbee’s forum and the developer of the software has looked into it to no avail. If I add the tags manually with MP3Tag, everything is as it should be. But if I use Picard to tag the album it does something that I’m not able to figure out why and any additional insight would be immensely appreciated. All the files are flac and therefore Vorbis Comments are used.
This is the album I’ll be using as an example, but I’ve confirmed the problem on more than a couple albums:
When I run an album through Picard that has Performers in the tags and then open the tag editor in Musicbee and view the Artists I get this:
This is the whole list from the Multiple Artist Splitter:
David Michael Farrell: bass guitar
Owen Pallett: strings
Mike Shinoda: strings
Rob Bourdon: drums
Bradford Phillip Delson: guitar
Mike Shinoda: guitar
Rob Bourdon: percussion
Bradford Phillip Delson: additional vocals
David Michael Farrell: additional vocals
Joseph “Joe” Hahn: additional vocals
Joseph “Joe” Hahn: turntable(s)
Mike Shinoda: keyboard
Chester Bennington: vocals
Mike Shinoda: vocals
Mike Shinoda: piano
Mike Shinoda: synthesizer
Joseph “Joe” Hahn: sampler
Linkin Park: Artist
As you can see “Linkin Park: Artist” is at the bottom of the list and all the Performers are at the top (the exact opposite happens if I add the tags manually). This causes Musicbee to use the top entry (“David Michael Farrell”) as the artist whenever a search that invokes the [Artist] tag is made. E.g if I were to search for lyrics by using [Artist] - [Title], the result would be “David Michael Farrell - I’ll Be Gone”, which of course doesn’t give me any results at all. Same thing happens if I do a google search using a custom web-link that looks like this:
https://www.google.se/search?site=&source=hp&q=$Replace([Artist],"&",) $Replace([Title],"&",)
The result would again be a google search for “David Michael Farrell - I’ll Be Gone”.
I’ve reinstalled Picard to clear all the settings and plugins. I’ve tried using the Sort Multi-Value Tags 0.2 plugin aswell as Standardise Performers 0.2 with all possible combinations (enabled/disabled), but nothing seems to help. It doesn’t seem reasonable that I’m the only one that has this issue but I’ve been unable to find anything about it, here or at Musicbee’s forum. If anyone has experienced this, or heard of it before, or has any idea on what I can try to do to solve it, I would be extremely grateful. Thanks in advance!