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+--Forum: Mp3/Tag Studio Support and Bug Reports
+---Topic: Bug: Tracknr gets written to Comment-tag started by Raven
Posted by: Guest on Oct. 18 2008,00:54
My MP3-players doesn't like tracknrs 1, 2, 3 etc. So I need to change my tags to 01, 02, 03 etc. One time I noticed some MP3's that only had a v1 tag which arer typically in the 1, 2, 3-form, so I copied v1 tags to v2 and I noticed the program adds the zero in front for each number below 10.
This gave me the idea to make an own setting to fix the numbers:
TrackNr_v2 -----> TrackNr_v1 (To make sure TrackNr_v1 is not empty)
TrackNr_v1 -----> TrackNr_v2 (To add the zero)
Now, this seems to work like a charm, but at some point it writes a copy of the tracknumbers without the zero to the comment field!
Now, I'm personally not worried by this, I just overwrite each commentfield with a white space. But some people might value the commentfield a bit more then I do...
Furthermore, Magnus, mp3 tag studio is just awesome. You spared me days, maybe even weeks of time... I truely love the program! Great work!
Greetz,
Raven aka Gerben Feenstra
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Oct. 22 2008,11:25
I'm glad you like the program.
You say this only happens sometimes, are you sure that this wasn't due to a previous condition in these files?
Otherwise, it would be great if you could send me an example file for which this happens, so that I can reproduce it.
Posted by: Guest on Oct. 23 2008,14:58
Hey.
Like I said: It works like a charm, it fixes my tracknumbers, but it ALSO overwrites the comment-field.
Don't need to send you files, it will always does it if you do it like I described in my first post.
But when you do the actions seperately, like first I do: TrackNr_v2 -----> TrackNr_v1 then I do a seperate TrackNr_v1 -----> TrackNr_v2 it doesn't happen.
It doesn't matter if tracknumbers are 01, 02, 03 or 1, 2, 3 before the action and it doesn't matter if the comment-field is empty or not, it just overwrites it. Comment_V2 that is, it leaves Comment_v1 untouched, which causes the tags to unsync as a side-effect.
PS. Just found and tagged a couple of untagged mp3's, then did the tracknumber conversion on them: Same result, tracknumber gets written to comment field.
Posted by: Guest on Oct. 23 2008,15:27
Hmm, playing around some more, I now did:
TrackNr_v2 -----> TrackNr_v1
TrackNr_v1 -----> TrackNr_v2
Genre_v2 -----> Genre_v1
This way it writes the genre to the comment-field as well instead of the tracknumber.
Strange thing is when i do this:
TrackNr_v2 -----> TrackNr_v1
TrackNr_v1 -----> TrackNr_v2
Artist_v2 -----> Artist_v1
It writes tracknumbers to the commentfields again.
I can investigate this some more later perhaps, I'm a little short on time atm...
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Oct. 24 2008,16:03
Thanks for the info. This might have to do with the fact that you are writing to the same fields hat you are reading, during the same operation.
On another note, the following operation should accomplish the same thing for you, without the strange side-effects:
TrackNr -----> TrackNr
Posted by: Guest on Oct. 27 2008,23:04
Ok, cool
I'll try that next time...G/L
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