How to clear the Artist field in the song Information page

SansMuso

Hi All (Peter?),
I am trying to set up my ST3 to connect to my fellow guitarist's ST3 so that when he runs a Host session and my ST3 connects to it, his song selection will call up the same song on my ST3 but show my lyrics.
I understand that the songs on my ST3 have to have exactly the same Title and Artist names (same spelling and lettera are case sensetive) as the songs on the Host ST3.
The problem I have run into is that many of his song's Artist field is blank (shows "Unknown Artist" in the Song listing) but my version of the song has an artist name typed in - BUT - I can't clear my song's Artist field so that it is also blank - if I delete the Artist name, when I go to save, it just puts the name back in again.

How do I clear the Artist field please?

peter

Hm, I guess you are right. It is not possible to clear that field. It will reset to the value from the audio file id3 tag. I would say this is a bug that I will fix in the next update.

SansMuso

peter Hi Peter, as always, thank you for the extremely prompt reply.
Thanks for including that in the next update. In the mean time, I will try clearing the audio file id3 tag and see if that is a temporary solution until an update. Kind regards.

SansMuso

Hi again Peter, if I clear the "Album artist" and "Contributing artists" info from the audio file id3 tag I can clear the ST3 song info Artist field and save it with nothing in it.
Interesting thing is that the song in the ST3 Song List now has a completely blank field under the title and not "Unknown Artist". I will have to check and see if I now have to type "Unknown Artist" into the Song Info Artist field for the Host connection to work or if it will work left as blank. Thanks. Kind regards.

peter

This was intentional. I wanted a way to revert to the tags from the mp3 file. Version 3.8.31 will work like this:

When you delete the contents of the field, it will display "Unknown Artist" in the song list
When you tap on the x button it will reset the field to the value from the id3 tag