The option is called ‘prefer embedded tags’.
Which tags should it trust, if there are no tags?
If you enable the above checkbox, you need to have correct
- Track Artist
- Track Title
- Track number
- Album Artist (identical for all tracks within one album and folder on disc)
- Album Title (identical for all tracks within one album and folder on disc. Keep the ‘disc number’ out of the Album Title.)
- Disc number (if the album has more than one disc)
Also necessary:
- All tracks need to be in an album (you can treat “Single” releases as identically-titled albums just fine)
- Each album needs to be in its own subfolder
- Each album subfolder needs to be in the appropriate ‘Artist’ folder
- Sampler albums/compilations can have all different track artists, but need all the same artist in the ‘Album Artist’ tag
If you have an Artist ‘Various Artists’ (for compilations and sampler albums), you have to make sure that all tracks underneath have their ‘Album Artist’ tracks set to ‘Various Artists’. Otherwise, your whole artist ‘Various Artists’ may get renamed to one of the deviant Album Artists.
