tonyhughes
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Posted: Aug. 26 2002,20:49 |
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This program does what I've wanted for a long time. The ability to search for terms in tags. I wanted to search for comments enterd via winamp. A few tests and it works, how exciting. Then I noticed some entries didn't seem to pass the search filter. Then I was totally baffled when I noticed the tag2 comments box in winamp's panel and tag2 in 'mp3TagStudio' often show completely different entries. I soon found the advanced info panel with its additional frames section. The current file had an extra 'comment' showing here, and this is what winamp displays. This comment is described as MusicMatch_bio, _prefs, etc. Of my downloaded files, around a quarter have between 1 and 4 of these MusicMatch comments fields. I can't imagine why winamp gives priority to these over the standard comment field. Editing a comment via winamp changes this MusicMatch field, not the standard field. Deleting one musicmatch comment brings up the next one in winamp, until all are deleted, when winamp displays the comment in the standard field. This has one disastrous effect. mp3TagStudio seems to search the standard comment field, so entries made via winamp MAY not be seen, additionally I can't tell from the winamp panel where my comment is going. I can't see a match for these in the drop down menu, but 'media type' removed some but not all of them. I found the remainder using windows explorer "search for text string within file", entering "musicmatch". I could then go straight to the offending files without having to step through every one. Not every musicmatch field blocks standard comments, I started trying to systematically record what was happening, but I'm afraid it got too confusing, and I just removed them all. Is there a way to find the 4 letter code for these so I can find and remove them more easily? They don't seem to correspond with anything in the list.
In my opinion the real offender is winamp for showing musicmatch comments in place of the standard comment field.(same with 2.80 & 3) I can't see any preference setting there, and a brief search of winamp forums for "comment field" showed nothing relevant either.
I am delighted with this new program, it is so useful that I decided within one day to register it.
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