All Audiobooks have "Various Artists" (1 Viewer)

[rsbrux]

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Despite double-checking the MP3 files involved as well as several attempts at rescanning (recreating) the music DB from scratch, MP insists that all of my audiobooks have an Album Artist (BAND) tag of "Various Artists", when in fact, most (if not all) have more informative entries in this tag. Attached are screenshots of some examples in SQL Lite and in MP3tag, as well as the Configuration log from the last scan (which unfortunately appears to be missing the part where the audiobooks were scanned). The music DB is around 15 MB. The music MP3s have the appropriate entries, as far as I can tell.

P.S. It seems I didn't understand the option "treat tracks in an individual folder as an album" well enough.
There were individual MP3 files in my top "Audiobooks" directory. MP appears to have assigned "Various Artists to these and all tracks in all subdirectories becuase they didn't share the same "Album Artist". Now that I have moved these assorted tracks into an "Unclassified" subdirectory, the DB looks the way I expected it to.

 

[milhouse]

Are you sure you are looking at the right fields? There are two tags that are relevant - there is "Artist" and there is "Album Artist". And the default MP views include an "artist" view and an "album artist" view.

Your MP3Tag screen shot shows the artist field, but not the Album Artist field, so I can't tell for sure.

 

[rsbrux]

Milhouse,
The Album Artist tag isn't show in the table on the right, but for the files selected in the right-hand panel, you can see it in the left hand panel as "Albumnterpret". I selected (highlighted) it, to try to make it more visible, but I guess I should have explained. Meanwhile, as you can see in the edit of my original post, I have discovered the cause. Thanks for responding!