The music is performed by guitarist Jason Vieaux, of the music of Pat Metheny. The database incorrectly identifies the album artist as Pat Metheny. Is there someone who knows how to change it? I was unable to find a good path forward. Thanks!
You may not know this but you can easily edit the tags to your needs in the bottom right âNew Valueâ section of Picard. If you want to change the artist for all tracks then select the album in the top right panel (next to the little disc icon) and click on the artist in the bottom right new tag area and change to your liking. Itâs best to not to always completely trust the automatic Picard results and check / verify these and change as you please. You have the original value on the bottom left panel and the new value on the bottom right. 9 times out 10 Picard gets itâs right but not always.
As @jesus2099 mentioned, this is just following our classical guidelines (itâs clearly meant to be a classical CD, it even says âfile under classicalâ on the back cover). What that means is that the artist for the tracks is the composer of the music, which in this case is indeed Pat Metheny.
That said, I do understand why this is a case in which some people would want to not follow the classical guidelines for their own tagging. Iâm not sure what options Plex gives to modify that for your personal collection though, maybe someone else here can be of more help?
Thanks all for your input, I will try and edit it. Yes, itâs sort-of an instrumental covers album, itâs Vieauxâs arrangements of some of Methenyâs compositions. Mr Vieaux is an acknowledged fan of the jazz great, and (this might set cats amongst pigeons) is one of the performers on Pat Methenyâs latest release, in which he (Pat) doesnât play!
Anyway with âImages Of Methenyâ Pat Metheny is most definitely NOT the recording artist, that would be the equally talented Jason Vieaux.
This will be difficult to get an agreement on or provide a solid guideline for.
I tend to agree that Jason Vieaux is the artist here, not Pat Metheny.
But then, I have a release by the Jacques Loussier Trio (a jazz trio) playing Satie.
Here I think that I would consider the Jacques Loussier Trio the artist.
Which would go against the classical guidelines, since Erik Satie is obviously a classical composer.
So what trumps what? A classical musician playing non-classical music, or a non-classical musician playing a classical composition?
edit:
Hm, perhaps only use the classical guidelines if both the performing artist and the composer are considered classical musicians/composers, and if either of the two is not (as in the two examples here) donât apply the classical guidelines?
