Unknown artist error

Posted by: Ooggetuige on 27 July 2015

I have a SuperUniti and a Muso connected to a Synology DS214+. This NAS has my music on it, ripped to FLAC-files. If I sort my music in artist/album mode through the app, there are many albums under the grouping "unknown artist". Whatever I do to change the tags doesn't seem to help: these albums remain in purgatory .

A detail that may offer a clue is that many of these albums were downloaded by me from the Society of Sound. Frustratingly enough, not all SoS albums show up with unknown artists...

Any advice, please?

 

Thank you, Hein

Posted on: 27 July 2015 by Harry

Have you tried to strip all the tags out of one album and re tagged it from scratch? 

 

I have in the past found that "problem" albums need every single tag scrubbed out. I use the delete feature on dBpoweramp which is a good strong tag killer. Editing tags doesn't always do the trick.

Posted on: 27 July 2015 by robgr

What are you using to edit the metadata, I'd recommend dBpoweramp?

Are you rescanning your music store(s) after changing the tags?

Posted on: 27 July 2015 by Huge

In some circumstances you may need to do a <Reset App> on the Naim app to clear cached metadata (just clearing the image cache isn't enough in this case).

Posted on: 27 July 2015 by Bart
Originally Posted by Huge:

In some circumstances you may need to do a <Reset App> on the Naim app to clear cached metadata (just clearing the image cache isn't enough in this case).

and make sure that the server re-scans after editing the metadata.  Edits that the server doesn't "see" aren't really edits!

Posted on: 27 July 2015 by magicaxeman

I use mp3tag to do all my tagging, make sure the tracks you want to re tag aren't write protected and then just edit the tags to suit.

Posted on: 27 July 2015 by Ooggetuige

As this is a persistent problem, i've used different tag editors. I'm a Mac owner, so dBpoweramp is not an option. I'm currently using Yate: that seems useful. I'll try to delete everything and rebuild all tags from that tomorrow, depressing as that sounds...

Posted on: 28 July 2015 by dsc
Originally Posted by Ooggetuige:

As this is a persistent problem, i've used different tag editors. I'm a Mac owner, so dBpoweramp is not an option. I'm currently using Yate: that seems useful. I'll try to delete everything and rebuild all tags from that tomorrow, depressing as that sounds...

 

Ooggetuige, you might like to know that there IS now a version of dBpoweramp for Mac OS X. I've tried it on my MacBook Air and it works a treat.

Regards, David

Posted on: 28 July 2015 by Ooggetuige

Thank you David: I'll give that one a try.

Posted on: 28 July 2015 by Harry
Originally Posted by Ooggetuige:

I'll try to delete everything and rebuild all tags from that tomorrow, depressing as that sounds...

You can batch strip all tags out of an album in seconds and re tag them exactly as you want. Maybe a bit time consuming, but depressing? I would be depressed if the problem persisted with no obvious solution. I don't think that's going to be the case.