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albumArtist vs trackArtist in custom format

Bug #591632 reported by lanzz
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Bug Description

I'm trying to convert a compilation album, which has an Album Artist tag set in iTunes to the same name (the compilation collector), and each track has an Artist tag set (the actual performer). My custom filename format is set to "{albumArtist} {albumDate} - {albumTitle}/{trackNumber} {trackArtist} - {trackTitle}", thus I expect to have a single folder with the name of the compilation collector and the name of the album, containing files with the track artists' names and track titles. Instead I get multiple folders named after the actual track artists, each containing a single track, named as "Unknown artist". Since the preferences dialog contains format specifiers for both Album Artist and Track Artist, it would be expected to use the iTunes "Album Artist" for the former and the "Artist" for the latter, which is not the observed behavior. I realize that iTunes' "Album Artist" tag is a bit custom usage of the TPE2 tag from what I read over the net, but since it is probably the most used Mac music player/manager, it makes sense for Max to support its features.

Using Max 0.9.1, files tagged with iTunes 9.1.1 (11), running on OS X 10.6.3.

Tags: format id3
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