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Magnus Brading
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Posted: May 27 2004,12:20

If you want a simple central place to report any bugs you may find in the 3.5 beta versions, you are welcome to put them all in this thread. If you like it better to put them in separate threads though, that's just fine too, I still read them all.

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Posted: May 27 2004,15:22

I will be unavailable now until Tuesday, in case you wonder why I'm not responding to any posts, but please keep the bug reports coming anyway, I will read and answer them as soon as I get back.

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Posted: May 27 2004,15:25

Beta 3
on Undo i got error I/O error 1784
fix it

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Posted: May 29 2004,06:17

Possible bug ! in Mp3TagStudio 3.5 b4

in the Auto Tag (from filename) tab:
if you untick all the boxes and erase everything from the "Field Separator Sequence.
You still have displayed:

<\><\>.mp3

(in red) Which you cannot delete,
this didn't exist in my Previous Version.
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Edited by johnber on May 29 2004,09:18

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Posted: May 31 2004,11:12

already not runnin on xp.sp2rc1. there's nothing more i can say...

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Posted: June 01 2004,12:00

When individual files are selected in the custom file selection, they get reset to all unchecked when clicking thru the tabs.

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Posted: June 01 2004,12:06

Request a shortcut to move up or down in the mp3 list when in the 'Browse/Edit tags & flags' when edititing the individual tag. (e.g., ctrl+up arrow or ctrl+down arrow will go to the previous/next mp3).

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Posted: June 01 2004,13:08

Ivan:

Does this happen every time, or just when processing certain files or performing certain operations? I cannot seem to reproduce it, so you are very welcome to provide more info to make me able to do this so I can fix it. Thanks!

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Posted: June 01 2004,13:12

johnber:

This is the same behavior as earlier versions. All it means is that you used the "Add dir" button to add these directory markers in the previous template, and you can remove them easily by selecting them in the "Order" listbox to the right, and then pressing the "Del dir" button (or switching to advanced mode and simply deleting them directly in the template edit box). Thanks for the report anyway!

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Posted: June 01 2004,13:15

ladiko:

The Windows XP SP2 problems are not fully fixed yet. As mentioned before, these problems are not in my own code, but in the code of the protections wrapper software "Asprotect", but I'm doing my best working with the author of that software to help him fix them. Hopefully it will work fine at the time this Windows service pack is released to the general public.

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Posted: June 01 2004,13:19

childeb1:

1.
Exactly what tabs/controls are you clicking to get the files in the custom files selection listbox unchecked? I cannot reproduce this? Please give a detailed example. Also, please make sure to make a difference between "unchecked" (meaning that the checkmarks in the checkboxes of the file entries in the list disappear) and "unselected" (meaning that the file entries lose focus, but still have their checkbox selected). It is only "unchecked" that matters.

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About the hotkeys, did you ever try alt+up/alt+down (or any of the other hotkeys documented in the manual

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Posted: June 01 2004,14:29

@mb:
i've played a little bit with the trial version of asprotect - added trial-screens to a programm and so on. and this programm runs 1 of 4 times i've started it. so i understand that the problem is caused by asprotect and not by your work.
on saturday i'm goin to buy an external hd for my notebook (my only pc). and then i install an aditional xp.sp1 -only to run mp3ts

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Posted: June 01 2004,16:12

Hehe, sounds good ladiko, I'm glad to hear you like it that much.

And just so you know, the registered versions of Asprotect are much more complex than the trial version, and hence have even more problems with SP2. I think Alexey (the author of Asprotect) will fix it though, he's a good guy. Thanks for hanging in there anyway.

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Posted: June 02 2004,01:06

Quote (Magnus Brading @ June 01 2004,13:19)

1) After rebooting, I cannot reproduce the unselecting bug. Sorry.

2) Thanks for the shortcut.

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Posted: June 02 2004,01:48

Quote (Magnus Brading @ June 01 2004,13:12)

johnber:

This is the same behavior as earlier versions. All it means is that you used the "Add dir" button to add these directory markers in the previous template

Thanks for the answer..
Sorry for the so called Bug, but i installed 3.5 over 3.1 and had this "problem" all of a sudden..
Never used this function before.
could you give an explanation or exemple of it's use! (a link in the forum perhaps.)
Thanks.

Edited by johnber on June 02 2004,01:49

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Posted: June 02 2004,04:26

Sure, here is a quote directly from the help file, including an example:

<\>
This is the directory field. It is used to show that information is to be parsed out from the names of the parent directories of the current directory.

A little example for this one:
If you have the following file:

C:\mp3\Britney Spears\Crazy (CD Single)\01 - Crazy (Stop! mix).mp3

and the following parsing template:

<Artist><\><Album><\><TrackNr> - <Title>.mp3

the following field assignment will be made:

Artist = "Britney Spears"
Album = "Crazy (CD Single)"
TrackNr = "01"
Title = "Crazy (Stop! mix)"

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Posted: June 02 2004,23:59

This is not new, but it seems that mp3ts may not correctly analyze the vbr header, or at least it is not consistent with some other popular tools.

An mp3 which is produced by LAME (3.90/3.96) --alt-preset standard shows a red file length and frame count in mp3ts, indicating some error in the VBR header. If I "repair" the VBR header using mp3ts 3.5b4, then these values now show as black. If I then open the file with mp3trim PRO 1.90 and save it, they show as red again.

Magnus, I am emailing you 3 small sample files to demonstrate this, in case it is helpful.

-- Mark Reynolds

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Posted: June 03 2004,01:24

Thanks for the report and the sample files, I've analyzed them and this is the source of the problem:

LAME does not count the VBR header frame itself into the total framecount of the file, but Mp3/Tag Studio and mp3trim do.

LAME does not include the size of the ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags in the its filesize count, mp3trim only includes the size of the ID3v1 tag, but not the ID3v2 tag (does not make sense), and Mp3/Tag Studio includes them both.

The bigger problem is that these VBR headers do not have a good official specification, so it's impossible to say who's right and who's not (except that the mp3trim size calculation really doesn't make sense). I have patched Mp3/Tag Studio to accept all these three variations as valid VBR headers now anyway (will be available in the next beta), but I will continue to create the VBR headers in the way I currently do, since there is no telling which is more right.

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Posted: June 03 2004,02:10

OK, here his another one, which I emailed to you but I think you would like me to document it here so that others may see and know it was reported.

I have found some files which I cannot set the flags on the whole file. It seems that these are otherwise valid MP3 files (not corrupted). On some files, the feature works fine, on others it does not. In batch mode it just says it failed, in single mode the message is "Warning: Unable to find a first valid frame header, aborting!"

In your response to me you said this is fixed in the next beta. Thanks!

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Posted: June 03 2004,05:44

With zero-pad track numbers set to 2, seems like a track number such as 3/7 should come out as 03-07 when auto renaming from tags. Currently, I get 03-7 which doesn't look right.

Just tried macros. Very nice!

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Posted: June 03 2004,12:49

Ok, the zero padding issue is fixed now too, available in the next beta, thanks.

And I'm glad you like the macros, I do too.

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Posted: June 03 2004,19:05

Filter Issue:

I set a filter that only has Filter Flags and CRC checked. It works as expected on the "Search" tab. If I set CRC Yes, some files get selected. If I set CRC No, all of the other files get selected.

Everywhere else ("Create custom lists", "Mass set tags/flags", "Mass cleanup tags", "Auto rename from tags", etc.) it doesn't seem to work. Whether I set it to CRC Yes or CRC No, none of the mp3's pass the filter.

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Posted: June 03 2004,19:18

Filter Issue: update

I just ran a test on a larger batch of mp3's. It turns out that the filter does pick up a FEW mp3's.

Here is my results run against 6149 mp3's.

Search Tab, Filter = CRC YES, 77 hits
Search Tab, Filter = CRC NO, 6077 hits

Create Custom Lists Tab, Filter = CRC YES, 0 hits
Create Custom Lists Tab, Filter = CRC NO, 43 hits

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Posted: June 04 2004,00:28

Could you please send me a sample of one of the mp3 files that get caught in the filter with crc=yes when running the search tool but not when running the list tool, and another file that has the same effect when crc=no in the filter, just like you describe? That would make it much easier for me to find and fix the problem anyway. Thanks!

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Posted: June 04 2004,19:03

Filter issue samples sent, as requested.

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Posted: June 05 2004,17:48

Thanks for the sample files, I have fixed this issue now (available in next beta). Btw, this problem was not present in versions prior to 3.5, it was a biproduct bug of the macro features.

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Posted: June 06 2004,02:51

I just released beta 5. Please go get it and come back with more feedback and reports.

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Posted: June 07 2004,12:02

mp3ts3.5b5 is already not runnin on xp.sp2rc1.

and i haven't found time to install xp.sp1 at the weekend. :confused:

i know that if the update of asprotect would be there, you will let us/me know that this bug is fixed, but i will report it until it works

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Posted: June 07 2004,12:09

i don't know if it works but on www.aspack.com is an "old" news:

18.05.2004
New ASProtect Release Candidate (for registered users only)

maybe it fix the prob, but only maybe...

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Posted: June 07 2004,13:44

I know, I have already tried that one, and it didn't work.

But I just made a new test for you, with an even newer version, please try it and see if it works any better:

http://www.magnusbrading.com/ftp/mp3tsb6_xp_sp2_test_patch.zip

Note that you MUST use the real official installpack/upgrade for Mp3/TS beta 6 first, and then copy this patch over it!

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Posted: June 07 2004,23:52

Substring Replacement Discrepancy in 3.5b5:

I have my casing set to Advanced. Where to apply includes the Title field. The words "a" and "in" are included in the always lower-case list.

I have a substring replacement rule like this:

replace substring "in a major"
with substring "in A Major"
case sensitive NO
apply AFTER CASEFIX
only whole word NO

This works as expected when editing tags in Browse/Edit with continuous casefix turned on. For instance, if I type a title like "concerto in a major" it becomes "Concerto in A Major". But if I run Direct Tag Manipulation <Title> to <Title> with case fix and replace ON, it changes to "Concerto in a Major".

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Posted: June 08 2004,10:19

So I finally got around to installing the beta version. I appear to have several sets of mp3's that consistently cause access violations when I choose their directory. Does not require that I examine any individual file, nor does it require that the explorer tree be utilized. If MP3TS is closed while such a directory is chosen, the next MP3TS startup will have an "error reading main datafile..." message.

I'll send you some examples tomorrow if you like, Magnus. Come on, I know you like getting to wade through piles of random, spurious wierd files!
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Posted: June 08 2004,12:45

tailwaggers,
Thanks, I just fixed it, please confirm that it works in the next beta (you will need to recreate any macros created in beta 5 which had the casefix option active during macro recording).

Disposable Hero,
Thanks for the report. Exactly what do you mean by "when I choose their directory"? I wonder this especially since you also say "If MP3TS is closed while such a directory is chosen..."? Are you referring to when you view such a directory in the normal Windows Explorer, which would in that case indicate the shell extension as the source of the problem? Please give more specific details about exactly in which situations that any crash occurs, and in exactly which programs it may occur (Mp3/Tag Studio or Windows Explorer?). Looking forward to the sample files.

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Posted: June 08 2004,15:39

this beta only outputs:
Runtime error 216 at 00003130

but it's even more than any other version outputs!

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Posted: June 08 2004,20:07

Whole File Flag Update Problem:

In general, updating flags on the whole file seems to be working well now. I have one file in which the flags do not seem to update correctly. I am sending you the sample by email.

mp3Trim PRO has a feature to detect if there are any flag inconsistencies throughout the file. On the sample file, whenever I have it set (using mp3ts) to its original flag setttings (private=YES, copyright=NO, original=NO), no inconsistencies are reported. If I use mp3ts to reverse the flags in the whole file, all three flags report inconsistencies, however no error or warning is reported within mp3ts and the browse view seems to indicate the flags were changed. This is true whether I set the flags using Browse/Edit or Mass Set Tags/Flags.

I do not see this behavior with most other mp3 files.

I don't THINK the file is corrupted, at least not as reported using my current set of tools. It is also possible that this is a bug in mp3Trim PRO, and it is just misreporting the inconsistencies. Please let me know if you think that is the case.

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Posted: June 08 2004,20:24

Magnus,
"As soon as I choose the directory": if using the explorer browse tree, immediately after clicking on a directory containing problematic files. If the browse tree is not enabled, immediately after clicking OK in the Choose Directory popup, having selected a directory containing problematic files. These are the circumstances for generation of the access violation.

MP3TS does not exit or lock up, it just produces the access violation popup. I can click OK in the resulting popup and continue browsing within MP3TS.

Access violation popup titlebar displays:
Mp3/Tag Studio 3.5 (beta 5)

Access violation popup message displays:
Access violation at 0048C5F9 in module 'mp3tag_s.exe'. Read of address 00000010

The values are always the same in the popup. Reproducable without exception, across multiple computer restarts. WinXP SP1, 2 gigs of ram, 10's of gigs of free disk space, etc.

I haven't used the shell extension, this is all solely within MP3TS. If I exit MP3TS while one of the folders containing problematic files is still the working directory, the main datafile error will be displayed the next time that MP3TS is launched.

I refer to "problematic files" because there are no special or distinguishing attributes to the folders. I've copied several of the folders to different locations on the same drive and then put different mp3's in them. Choosing these new directories as the working folder for MP3TS does not generate any error.

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Posted: June 08 2004,20:45

Thanks for the sample files both of you, I will analyze them.

tailwaggers, I took a quick glance and noticed that your sample file contained unsynced binary data (jpeg cover art). This might confuse some analyzers, please try to remove the entire ID3v2 tag from that file (with Mp3/Tag Studio) and see if mp3Trim reacts any differently to it then (also try to set the flags again in Mp3/Tag Studio if mp3Trim still says it has inconsistent flags, and then see what it says after that).

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Posted: June 08 2004,21:02

Hehe, this is funny, the sample file that tailwaggers sent me triggered the exact same crash that Disposable Hero reported after I had played around with it some, and indeed, it was the bug that Disposable Hero was referring to (but it had nothing to do with the problem in tailwaggers' original report).

It turns out this bug was introduced in beta 5, and it quite serious, i.e. it causes crashes for many different mp3 files, mainly files that only has an ID3v1 tag but no ID3v2 tag, but it could happen to other files too (don't worry, no risk for damage, just the annoying crash that Disposable Hero reported).

It is fixed now anyway, and all will be fine in beta 6, thanks guys!

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Posted: June 08 2004,21:08

Yeah, I got that too, as soon as I tried to remove the ID3v2 tag. So is there anything else I can do to help with the flag issue?

Edited by tailwaggers on June 08 2004,21:11

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Posted: June 08 2004,21:28

Well that's good to hear. I was worried that Magnus had something against Mampi Swift...

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Posted: June 08 2004,21:31

tailwaggers, about helping with the flag issue, could you please perform the test I describe in my post above, and report the results here?

Beta 6 is being uploaded to the website as we speak btw...

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Posted: June 08 2004,21:33

Ok, beta 6 is officially released, here's what's added/fixed:

* Added macro support to the shell extension (Windows Explorer right-click menu).

* Made a fix to the "Only whole word" feature of the casefix tool, so that it now also supports phrases containing more than one word (it is now called "Only whole word/phrase").

* Fixed a bug related to the custom replacements casefix feature, introduced in beta 5.

* Fixed a bug (introduced in beta 5) that sometimes caused crashes when analyzing mp3 files in e.g. the browse tool.

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Posted: June 08 2004,22:15

Sweet. Issue fixed with beta 6. Thanks Magnus!

Might be important to note: the shell extension may need to be disabled in File > Settings before it can be replaced when using the update patch (not the full install).

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Posted: June 08 2004,22:33

I followed the procedure of completely removing the ID3v2 tag but see no difference. It appears that mp3ts 3.5b6 is silently failing to set the flag through the whole file.

I confirmed that it is a problem with mp3ts by locating another little utility that just sets mp3 flags. When I change the flags for the whole file with that utiility, no discrepancy is reported by mp3trim PRO.

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Posted: June 08 2004,22:36

Strange about the shell extension, it should suffice to only start Mp3/Tag Studio once to install the new shell extension. You might have to close all Windows Explorer windows before doing this though, or the upgrade of the shell extension may fail (because Windows Explorer may lock up the dll file that is to be upgraded), but in that case it should happen the next time Mp3/Tag Studio is started (and there are no Windows Explorer windows locking up the file) instead.

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Posted: June 08 2004,22:39

Thanks for the report tailwaggers, could you maybe send me that small flag setting utility so I can compare its results to the ones of Mp3/Tag Studio, to easier pinpoint the problem?

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Posted: June 08 2004,22:42

http://webclub.kcom.ne.jp/ma/takabin/eng/setmpflag.html

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Posted: June 08 2004,22:45

Hmm, on second thought, since I don't have mp3Trim to validate my results myself, could you please send a copy of the same sample file you sent before, but this time being fixed with this tool (with the same flags set as the last one) and validated in mp3Trim? That would make things a lot easier anyway, thanks!

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Posted: June 08 2004,23:09

Samples sent.

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Posted: June 08 2004,23:44

Now that I think about it, the shell extension replacement issue is probably rare. I run explorer in multiple processes, this is probably why the extension does not get 'released' on my system.

Edited by Disposable Hero on June 08 2004,23:45

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Posted: June 09 2004,00:43

Ok tailwaggers, it's fixed, available in next beta. It was a bug in Mp3/Tag Studio that skipped the last frame in the file if this frame was too small and the file didn't contain an ID3v1 tag.

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Posted: June 09 2004,18:07

Macro Problem:

I recorded a new macro from scratch with beta 6. The file is attached. When I try to execute the macro, I get the following error message:

Warning: Syntax error, unknown property "AlwaysToBeCapitalized1" in casefix section of operation "DirectTagManipulate", aborting.

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Number of downloads: 1155

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Posted: June 11 2004,01:17

Thanks, it's fixed now, available in the next beta.

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Posted: June 18 2004,17:26

mp3ts3.5beta5 and beta6 run under xp.sp2rc2!
my dream come true!!!

but know i've another prob with the substring replacement:
for example i've a rule:
replace ( by [ not case sensitive, before casefix, not whole word
but nothing happens...
like all other rules i've inserted (feat. -> ft. OR versus -> vs.)
i don't know why.
the new macro-feature is really cool (i haven't seen it in the betas before - you know why :confused:

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Posted: June 18 2004,23:59

Looks like Microsoft changed something in rc2 that was causing those problems then, nice.

About your replace problem, I cannot reproduce it, it works just fine for me?

1.
Are you using the latest beta?

2.
Are you sure you have applied casefixing to the field in which the parenthesis are located?

3.
Are you sure you haven't gotten a space or something by mistake into the substring replacements source string, i.e. the one you want to be "("?

If it remains a problem, please give me a detailed description of how to reproduce the problem, i.e. which tool you used, which tag field you operated on, what other casefix settings you had set and so on.

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Posted: June 27 2004,00:11

here are some screenshots of my settings. maybe you can tell me what's wrong. by the way alwaysLowerCase("vs") works, change("(","[") or change(")","]") doesn't.

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Posted: June 27 2004,20:03

I don't see any screenshots?

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Posted: June 28 2004,09:43

yes, you are right, it was too late.

here is the link

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Posted: June 28 2004,15:24

I use exactly those settings, and it works perfectly for me? As I said, are you sure that you haven't by mistake left a space in the replace rule (so that it is "( " instead of "(" and so on)?

Is anyone else having this problem?

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Posted: June 28 2004,20:43

there's no space. i've tested it again and again.
as i've used mp3ts3.05 i also had a lot of rules like this:
Vs. -> vs.
or
Dj -> DJ
Mc -> MC
Rem -> REM
and so on ...
as i've downloaded mp3ts3.5 i recogniced, that there is also a list "always lower case" and a list "always "upper case" :idea:

very strange!

hmmm, i'm testin a little bit longer if it works on your machine!

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Posted: June 28 2004,20:53

Please record a macro of this auto-tag operation that fails, and then send the macro file to me, together with a sample mp3 file for which it fails. Then I will be able to analyze it better.

About the "always upper case" list, it is not strange at all, it was added in version 3.5.

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Posted: July 06 2004,12:52

hmmm. the cause for my problem was, that i've used the beta5installation with the beta6.exe, that you've posted for testing on sp2rc1-compatibility. :confused:

now with a real beta6installation it works fine!

i'm sorry for my mistake!

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Posted: July 17 2004,05:09

Beta 7 is released, here's what's added/fixed:

* Fixed a bug (introduced in beta 6) which caused macros containing operations using the casefix utility to fail loading / executing.

* Fixed a bug that under certain conditions could miss the last mp3 frame header in the target file when performing a "modify mp3 flags in all frames" operation.

Also, all previous beta versions will expire in less than a week now, but this one will keep working.

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Posted: Aug. 18 2004,15:24

Beta 7 Expired

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Posted: Aug. 19 2004,11:11

Hi Magnus!

Will you post new beta-releases again in this thread? I'll wait for that to test and report asap

Thanks!!
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Posted: Aug. 19 2004,22:18

Lion, Mp3/Tag Studio beta 7 should not have expired yet, are you sure your computer's clock is set correctly? Is anyone else having this problem?

And Matthias, test what? (sorry, can't keep track of who reported and tested what, at least not their forum handles)

And yes, I will try to release a new beta soon, and I will announce it in this thread.

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Posted: Aug. 20 2004,02:32

Hi Magnus!

Just test the new release because of my SP2-problem... Sorry about the missunderstanding

Good luck!
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Posted: Aug. 27 2004,09:18

Sorry, Magnus.
Just reinstalled from scratch, and no expiration message from beta7. All OK.
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Posted: Sep. 19 2004,01:14

Couple small bug reports for the Name & Tag Tools section under Browse/Edit tags & flags:

1. When typing a genre into its field and Continuous casefix is checked, the genre is always lowercase, even if it triggers the autocomplete function. If you type it and then hit the down-arrow, it capitalizes properly as it finds the correct built-in entry.
2. The browse/edit list seems to be sorted differently than the "Custom file selection mode" list. This may be due to Windows XP's improved sorting algorithm being used for the file list on the left. I've attached a screenshot. You'll see the same entry is highlighted on both sides.

I hope this is helpful info.

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Posted: Sep. 19 2004,15:00

The genre field isn't targeted by the casefix utility by design (inside the casefix tool settings you can specify which fields should be targeted, under the "Where to apply" option, and as you see, the genre field isn't selectable here).

Thanks for the note about the sorting too, I'm aware of this, but it's not much of a problem anyway I guess.

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Posted: Sep. 20 2004,04:40

Hi all! I have Beta 7 here and a problem:

I made a macro that runs Direct Tag Manipulation followed by File Renaming from Tags. This macro runs just fine when activated from the GUI, but when selected to run from command-line it returns the following error:

Dialog Executing Macro...
Executing macro: Command-line macro execution
Current macro operation: DirectTagManipulate

Message Application Error
Exception EAccessViolation in module mp3tag_s.exe at 0009AF42.
Access violation at address 0049AF42 in module 'mp3tag_s.exe'. Read of address 00000000.

What am I doing wrong??? :ashamed:

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Posted: Sep. 20 2004,13:03

Sounds like a possible bug. Does this happen no matter what the target files are? Are you using the same target files for both the command-line and the GUI execution?

If you could please upload the macro here (attach it to a post) and also give me the exact command-line that you use when it happens, I can take a look at it.

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Posted: Sep. 20 2004,15:31

Hi Magnus! Thanks for your patience.

I don't know how to attach files here in this post, so I sent the macro to your e-mail with subject Problematic Macro.

Well, I've tried running this macro both from the shell extension menu and a batch file, also ran both in a single file or in a folder and in different albums, the problem persists.

The most strange thing is when I run this same macro on the same files or folders from the GUI it works like a charm! Curious, isn't it?

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Posted: Sep. 20 2004,17:34

Ok, I've found the bug and fixed it, it will work fine in the next update. This bug caused macros containing operations from the "Direct tag manipulation" tool to malfunction when the macros were executed from the command-line. Thanks for the report and the sample file!

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Posted: Sep. 28 2004,18:40

I've read the entire thread here and am confused about Windows XP SP2. Does it work with beta 7?

My computer keeps bugging me to upgrade to SP2 but I've been holding off because of MP3/Tag Studio since I NEED this app to work.

I am running beta 7 and it is working fine for me with SP1.
Is it safe for me to upgrade to SP2?

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Posted: Sep. 29 2004,01:16

I have tested beta 7 myself with SP2, and it works fine for me. I also have not received any complaints about beta 7 not working with SP2, so you should be safe I think.

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Posted: Sep. 30 2004,00:50

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The genre field isn't targeted by the casefix utility by design

That's cool with me -- but it probably shouldn't force lowercase, which is what enabling casefix does now. :agree:

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Thanks for the note about the sorting too, I'm aware of this, but it's not much of a problem anyway I guess.

Please let me ask that you reconsider fixing it. I've discovered that I work back & forth between the "Auto rename from tags" and "Browse/edit tags/flags" tabs primarily. If I notice in the auto rename preview that the change makes the filename "worse" (subjectively), I'll go to the specific file and edit the tags manually.

To do that, of course I have to find it, and I look for it based on what the program showed me in the preview and the dir list on the left. It makes it harder to figure out where the heck a file is to edit it if the displays don't match.

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Posted: Sep. 30 2004,00:51

BTW, I can confirm that Beta 7 works great with XP SP2.

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it probably shouldn't force lowercase, which is what enabling casefix does now

In which tool does this happen? I cannot reproduce this behavior? I can use mixed case genre fields in combination with the casefix tool without any problems?

And about the sorting, nah, I guess I'm not currently planning to do anything about this. The primary reason is that the sorting for one of the boxes is not my own code, and then I'd have to patch some library code, which is not very appealing. Sorry about that.

And thanks for the confirmation about SP2.

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Posted: Oct. 01 2004,04:22

Quote (Magnus Brading @ Sep. 30 2004,01:11)

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it probably shouldn't force lowercase, which is what enabling casefix does now

In which tool does this happen? I cannot reproduce this behavior?

My apologies -- it does maintain whatever case is typed. It was the autocomplete that threw me -- autocomplete in other tag editors I use capitalizes the first word, so when it autocompletes in lower case with TS3 it looked strange.

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And about the sorting, nah, I guess I'm not currently planning to do anything about this. The primary reason is that the sorting for one of the boxes is not my own code, and then I'd have to patch some library code, which is not very appealing.

Makes sense. Would you consider modifying the sort that you did code? As long as they match, I'm not worried about whether punctuation sorts to the top or the bottom, for example. (If anybody's married to the way it sorts now, maybe it could be optional to match the other sort scheme.) Whatcha think?

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Posted: Oct. 01 2004,11:30

I don't know how easy it would be to find out exactly what criteria the other box uses to sort the contents. I use strict case-insensitive ascii value sort, but the other one seems to have many special cases.

But sure, I might take a look at it later, just not very high prio I guess, I hope you understand.

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Posted: Oct. 03 2004,18:13

All mp3tag studios have bug with editing files from LAN network "I/O error 123" plz report

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Posted: Oct. 03 2004,23:26

I assume you are talking about UNC paths? Yes, these are not supported at the moment, please mount your network shares as drives instead and it will work fine.

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Posted: Oct. 05 2004,23:57

Quote (Magnus Brading @ Oct. 01 2004,11:30)

I use strict case-insensitive ascii value sort, but the other one seems to have many special cases.

But sure, I might take a look at it later

Thanks -- I appreciate it.

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Sorry, can i ask when are you going to release 3.5 final? I had no problems with it even after installing SP2.

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Posted: Oct. 08 2004,23:06

It will come soon enough, I have no exact plans, but as long as you're not having any problems with beta 7 I guess there isn't much rush, right?

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Posted: Oct. 10 2004,22:53

Yeah, you're right but it simply sounds bad to use a beta :S
and also, I thought Tag Studio is dead since it was stuck in a beta phase until I visited the forum:)

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Posted: Oct. 10 2004,23:40

Hehe, never dead, only a bit slow sometimes, but it's usually worth waiting for anyway I hope.

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Posted: Oct. 23 2004,16:33

Beta 8 is released, here's what's added/fixed:

* Fixed a bug that caused problems when reading Unicode-encoded ID3v2 tags.

* Fixed a bug that could cause macros containing operations with the "Direct tag manipulation" tool to fail, when executed from the command-line.

* Fixed a bug that only made it possible to enter content of length 30 or below in some of the fields of the "Advanced ID3v2 info" window in the browse tool.

* Fixed a bug that caused problems when trying to use the root directory of drives as the working directory when executing macros from the command-line.

Also, previous beta versions will expire soon now, but this one will keep working.

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Posted: Oct. 23 2004,21:44

Thanks Magnus. Perhaps it's worth recommending that folks disable the shell extension in Settings before they extract the update patch? If it's in use, it won't be overwritten.

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Posted: Oct. 25 2004,01:26

Hmm, the shell extension dll in the actual program dir should never be in use directly I think. It should be copied to the Windows system dir and be used from there instead, and on every start of Mp3/Tag Studio it will be checked if the version of the file in the Windows system dir is actually the same as for the one in the installation directory, and otherwise it will be updated. But then of course, the same problem applies there, but as far as I have seen the dll in the Windows system dir is only locked if an instance of Windows Explorer is running, where the shell extension has been loaded (i.e. where a file/dir applicable for processing by it has been right clicked) at least once.

Is this not the case on your system?

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Posted: Oct. 25 2004,23:33

Hmm. Well, I'm willing to accept this as just my problem if no one else has an issue with it. I just know that I got the standard "file in use, cannot overwrite" message when I tried to extract to the program dir.

It also happens that I run Explorer in multiple instances, for my own special reasons, so that could definitely be involved. Again, if no one else has a problem, it's not really an issue

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If I try to access a read-only windows share, mp3ts 3.5b7 will immediately display "I/O error 123."
Specifically, this is a windows share for which guest access is enabled, and there are no write privileges at all.

I usually start the program by using the "edit this file.." explorer association.
If I do this on a read-only windows share, I get the error, after which the program is left with no interface.
You can easily kill in with the task bar or the task manager, however this generates a second problem;
On the next run, mp3ts displays "Error reading main datafile, using defaults!".
I assume that the prefs file is being erased or corrupted by the unclean exit.

This is a pretty minor problem. I have no actual need to edit the files on this share, I just sometimes forget where it is that I'm browsing.
It may be useful to note that files on this read-only share do NOT have their read-only attribute set. I believe that this is different behavior than CD-ROMs or DVDs.

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Posted: Nov. 18 2004,01:00

Nuts, I should've read the whole thread before posting.

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Posted: Nov. 18 2004,01:56

I think this is because the files are located on a UNC path, not because they are read only, is this a correct observation you think?

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Posted: Nov. 18 2004,05:43

I think you're right. I was making an assumption about the write access.

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I'm running Windows XP SP1, running inside Microsoft Virtual PC 7 for Mac on a PowerMac G5. Whenever I run MP3TS it crashes immediately, generating the standard Windows error report. I've tried 3.05 and 3.5 beta 8, same thing with both.

I know there's probably not many people running it this way, and you may not have a setup to test this on. But, any ideas? I can send the error report to you, if you could take a look at it that would be cool.

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Hello All, I am running into a problem with browsing and refreshing of directory/file listings.

Browsing: I have noticed that when I chose a directory to browse either via the tree or selection from the dialog box, that it fails to refresh. I have tried this with the 'Use explorer browse tree' checked and unchecked. I can provide more details if needed.

Refreshing: Similar to above. After making an edit to a file in the "Browse/Edit Tags & Flags" window, the edits are not reflected in the 'browse' file list.

I am using 3.5 beta 8 (fyi - registered): Windows Pro XP SP1 + plus all relevant patches (no SP2).

Thank you!

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Posted: Dec. 09 2004,23:30

Birdman, I have tested it in VMWare, on both XP SP1 and SP2, so either it seems to be a problem in Virtual PC, or some problem with your virtual machine setup. As long as I cannot reproduce it locally there is quite little I can do. Please get back to me if you come up with any specific clues about what might trigger it though.

Cijoy, I'm not sure exactly what it is you're saying is not updating? Could you please give me a simple step-by-step example that I can follow to reproduce the problem?

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Posted: April 28 2005,23:38

Beta 9 is released, here's what's added/fixed:

* Finally fixed the long standing GUI problems occurring for eople who use non-standard DPI settings in Windows (e.g. the “Large Fonts” setting)!

Also, previous beta versions will expire soon now, but this one will keep working.

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Posted: May 07 2005,19:51

Beta 10 is released, here's what's added/fixed:

* Fixed the problems with the Explorer dir tree (both the earlier more rare ones, and the one introduced in beta 9).

* Fixed some bugs in the shell extension (i.e. the Explorer right-click menu).

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Posted: May 08 2005,17:37

Moved from 3.05 to 3.5b10

Was broke and still is:
Main Program Settings >> File Tools >> Create Lists >> Sort List Output ... (ignores manual settings. seems to sort default only)

Was NOT broke but NOW is:
Working Directory - Browse button (hangs application indefinetely)
Create custom lists >> Advance mode >> easy access menu (all entries are invalid - syntax)
Create custom lists >> Advance mode >> Execute (list created, <Length> entries are missing)

Either not available previously or untested before current version, but malfunctioning:
Main Program Settings >> File Tools >> Create Lists >> Include field headers ... (when checked, adds an invalid first entry into custom lists)

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Posted: May 12 2005,00:35

Howdy. I'm running XP SP2 and beta 10.

Beta 10 throws an "Out of memory error" consistently when I try to do any tag manipulation on a particular set of mp3 files (Editing the tag, removing the tag). The tag version doesn't matter either.

This is consistent across reboots, multiple invocations of mp3ts etc.

I put the smallest file that reproduces this error here:

temp.mp3

Thanks, and thanks for a truly useful program.

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Posted: May 12 2005,11:00

Ivarr, I just analyzed the file, and the ID3v2 tag has serious corruption. To remove it, set the first byte of the file to 0 in a hex-editor, and then perform a "Remove junk data before first mp3 frame" repair procedure on it in Mp3/Tag Studio. This removes the corrupt ID3v2 tag, and you can re-tag it.

And dasanco, I'm looking into your reported problems, thanks a lot for the report!

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Posted: May 13 2005,00:49

Magnus,
I posted this in it's own thread before I noticed the dedicated "report bugs here" thread. Sorry about that.

Not sure if this is a bug, or if you have intended it for some other purpose, but in the advanced rename mode, when you right click and select <OldFileName> from the context menu, what gets inserted into the string template is actually <&OldFileName>. The "&" seems to make the template illegal, and it's removal allows the template to work as one would expect.
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Yes, I'm looking into this too, thanks.

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Posted: May 16 2005,16:51

Thanks for the report as always noddy, the same problem was reported three posts above yours in this thread, that's why I missed to reply to your seperate thread too. I will look into it.

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Posted: May 19 2005,06:28

Found another one, Magnus.
From within "Browse/edit Tags & Flags", if you copy all tag data, and then use "paste/insert only (don't overwrite existing data)", it DOES actually overwrite all previous data.

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Posted: May 19 2005,10:29

I just tried it and it worked perfectly here. Hmm, are you sure you understood this feature correctly? First of all, you misquoted the name, which is a little clue to this. The real name is "Insert (leave other existing tag versions in file)", i.e. it is not a merge of tag data in the same tag that is performed, it only means that if you previously only copied either the ID3v1 tag or the ID3v2 tag from a file to the clipboard, you will only write the ID3v1 tag or ID3v2 tag to the new file, leaving other previous tag versions in it. It does not mean that it will merge individual tag fields within the same tag version that you paste.

If you still think it's a bug, please give step-by-step instructions for how it can be reproduced.

Thanks for your report in any case.

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Posted: June 04 2005,13:27

Dasanco, there seems to be something strange going on in your computer. I cannot reproduce any of the problems you report, except for the one with the "&" character inserted in the templates when using the advanced mode menus (and I have fixed this one for the next release already).

For the "Sort list" problem, my guess is that you're trying to sort by a field that's not in your lists, and this won't work, the sorting can only be based on fields included in the lists. For the other ones I don't have a clue why they behave so strangely for you. :confused:

Can anyone else reproduce any of dasanco's reported problems?

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Posted: June 04 2005,19:52

Beta 11 is released, here's what's added/fixed:

* Added an option to rename macros (from their context menu in the macro window).

* Added an "invert selection" feature to the custom file selection box context menu.

* Added display of the frame codes for additional ID3v2 frames in the Advanced ID3v2 info box of the browse tool.

* Added enter as a hotkey for the write button in the Advanced ID3v2 info box of the browse tool.

* Fixed a bug that caused syntax errors when selecting template fields from the advanced mode context menu in all the tools (this bug was introduced in beta 10).

* Fixed a bug that made ID3v1/ID3v2 contents still show up in the preview dialog of the mass clean tool, even if the user had selected to remove the entire tags.

* Fixed a problem with colliding hotkeys in the mass set tool.

* Fixed a bug that still modified the file dates on files when writing their tags from the Advanced ID3v2 info box of the browse tool, even when the global setting to not modify file dates was active.

* Fixed a bug that made custom genres added from the global settings not show up in the genre drop-downs until after a program restart.

* Fixed a bug that made custom genres show in the genre drop-downs even though the program was in ID3v1-only mode (and hence they cannot be written to tags in that mode anyway).

* Fixed a startup problem that may occur in the special condition that a user doesn't have a C:-drive in the computer, and at the same time has corrupted the Mp3/Tag Studio main datafile.

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Thank you for the diligence ...

I reinstalled and uninstall each product and then manually deleted all remaining folders and files left behind by the uninstall. Also, manually cleaned the registry of remaining keys.

I then installed beta 11 ...

No longer an issue.
* The "Working Directory - Browse button" is now functional.
* The "&" character IS now fixed.

Two of the other three custom list issues are now solved.
* "Invalid first entry" was due to misinterpretation of the "Include Field Headers" checkbox. sorry.
* "Sort List Output" issue WAS due to the counterintuitive need for the field to be included in the "list", as you mentioned. It would be an excellent addition to your next release to make any "file" field sortable instead of any "list" field. It would make the function much more powerful without compromising any of it's currently functionality.

However the last item I have not found a solution. The <length> function is still missing.
* When using the ‘Create custom lists’ function in ‘Advanced mode’ the resulted list does not include the length when inserted in the template. During further testing it was found that all four of the grouped fields (<Length>, <Sam. freq.>, <Ch. mode>, <Bitrate>) result in no entry in the created list. The rest of the standard fields do result in the appropriate text in the created list. Using the ‘Fixed field width’ option will insert blank spaces for each entry. For example using this template …
/<Length>-<Sam. freq.>-<Ch. mode>-<Bitrate>/
Creates this output …
/ - - - /
However without 'Fixed field width' checked you simply receive...
/---/
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks again for the great product.

dasanco

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Whenever I've been using mp3 TS for a while, it starts to slow down after I've processed several (3 or 4) albums. Eventually it gets so slow that it becomes almost unresponsive, and then I get this error:

"Thread creation error: Not enough storage is available to process this command."

I've got 2GB of RAM and 50GB of free hard drive space, so I'm not sure what the problem could be. Memory leak maybe? Although when I get this error mp3tag_s.exe is only using 33,940k.

3.5 beta 11, XP SP2

Any ideas? Thanks!

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Posted: June 08 2005,01:23

Magnus,
Sorry, I just realised that I didn't get around to responding to your post about the pasting and previous tag versions thingy.
You are quite right. I HAD misinterpreted the function.
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However the last item I have not found a solution. The <length> function is still missing.
* When using the ‘Create custom lists’ function in ‘Advanced mode’ the resulted list does not include the length when inserted in the template. During further testing it was found that all four of the grouped fields (<Length>, <Sam. freq.>, <Ch. mode>, <Bitrate>) result in no entry in the created list. The rest of the standard fields do result in the appropriate text in the created list. Using the ‘Fixed field width’ option will insert blank spaces for each entry. For example using this template …
/<Length>-<Sam. freq.>-<Ch. mode>-<Bitrate>/
Creates this output …
/ - - - /
However without 'Fixed field width' checked you simply receive...
/---/
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks again for the great product.

dasanco

Magnus,
I'd just like to back up Dasanco's claim.
I just did a test, creating a list in advanced mode, and instead of using a hyphen as a delimiter, I used:

<Title>[NEWLINE]<Length>[NEWLINE]<Sam. freq.>[NEWLINE]<Ch. mode>[NEWLINE]<Bitrate>[NEWLINE]

and I got a text file with a title on line 1, lines 2-6 were blank, line 7 had the next title, lines 8-12 were blank etc etc.

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Posted: June 08 2005,12:18

Noddy and dasanco, there is something really strange going on here. :confused:

I just executed your exact templates on several hundreds of mp3s with beta 11, and they all produced valid results (like e.g. "/4:15-44100 Hz-Stereo-192 kbps/").

Could you please post screenshots of your settings? (lets begin with the normal and extended settings of the list maker)

With your help I can hopefully get to the bottom of this problem.

And peepoop, your problem has been reported once before too, but I cannot reproduce it.

Does this problem ("Thread creation error"...) happen to anyone else reading this?

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Posted: June 09 2005,02:11

I would love to help but at the risk of sounding stupid .... what exactly is it you want screenshots of?

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Posted: June 09 2005,02:39

Well, this IS bizarre!
I've just re-done the test (for the purposes of creating the screenshots), and whaddya know?
It's behaving itself.
I have this theory about computers.... they know when stupid people are watching, and they know when technicians are about... and when technicians (be it hardware or software) are about, the computers don't muck up. They're like those kids at the back of your 9th grade class... only mucking around when the teacher isn't looking....
...sorry, I digress.
(edit)
Just found out you can't upload zip files, so I've put the file here.
(end of edit)
Don't know what (or IF) I did anything differently today, but the results are certainly different. I'll keep playing with it and see if I can re-create the error, Magnus.

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Posted: June 09 2005,02:48

"Ah-HAH!" He cried.
Found it.
It would appear that you have to DISABLE advanced mode, make sure AT LEAST ONE of the filesize, bitrate, samp freq, or ch mode check boxes are ticked. Then, re-enter advanced mode, paste in your full string (a la my post from yesterday) and create the list. It will come out perfectly.
However, lets say you disable advanced mode, and only check 'title'. You then go to advanced mode, and paste in your complex argument, the text file will only have the title info parsed out.
Wierd.
Have fun with that one, Magnus!

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Posted: June 10 2005,02:59

Wow kudos to noddy. However my results were even MORE peculiar.

Since things are getting a bit more complex, let me simply use the following terms …

DEFAULT = With “Advance mode” unchecked
Field selection set to default - Title, Artist, Album, Year and Comment are checked
Then “Advance mode” checked and any template containing anything fields from
the group of - Length, Bitrate, Sam. Freq. or Ch. Mode.
NODNON <noddy phenomenon> = With “Advance mode” unchecked
Field selection set to - Title, Artist, Album, Year, Comment AND one or more from
the group Length, Bitrate, Sam. Freq. or Ch. Mode are checked
Then “Advance mode” checked and any template containing anything fields from
the group of - Length, Bitrate, Sam. Freq. or Ch. Mode.

When a DEFAULT list is created and the directory contains many files of many types, the created list correctly includes only MP3 files from the directory, except the any of the fields from the group (Length, Bitrate, Sam. Freq. or Ch. Mode) are blank.

However …

When a NODNON list is created and the directory contains many files of many types, the created list incorrectly includes all files in the directory, however fields from the group (Length, Bitrate, Sam. Freq. or Ch. Mode) are correctly reported for MP3 files. Of course all the template fields reported for non-MP3 files are invalid, errors or blank.

The “Errors and warning” pop-up dialog seems to report the same information for either list creation (File <filename> did not contain an ID3 tag.). However the “Status:” area at the bottom of the main window adds an additional line of information during the NODNON creation of an invalid file entry (Added chosen field(s) from file <filename> to list). But obviously a non-MP3 file contains NO chosen fields.

Don’t know if this is a blessing or a curse. In either case, hope this info helps?!

dasanco

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Posted: June 10 2005,10:30

Thanks noddy and dasanco for the detailed information!

I might not be able to analyze this problem further for a few days, but I'll get right back here with my results as soon as I do, ok? Thanks again.

(dasanco, you might want to register an account here at the board, to get email notifications of all new posts in the threads you participate in, just an advice)

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Posted: June 10 2005,12:38

okay

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When I change names of directories, delete or create new directories while mp3ts is running, the browser tree in mp3ts is not always updated. Sometimes it is, sometimes not. this concerns beta 11.

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Posted: June 11 2005,13:53

Yes Milsam milk, this has been reported before, and is noted for investigation. Thanks for your report in any case.

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Posted: June 11 2005,14:00

The preview function in "Mass set Tags" doesn't work correctly...

I wanted to "mass-set" the field URL, but in the preview mode the field wasn't filled with my value, it was just empty.

I ran the mass-set function, though, and afterwards the field WAS filled indeed.

So only the preview-mode doesn't seem to work anymore in beta 11...

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Posted: June 11 2005,14:25

Hi Michael. Yes, this has already been reported too, and I'm looking into it for the next release. Thanks for your report in any case.

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Posted: June 27 2005,11:38

If I have the browser tree open and execute "Auto rename (from tags)" the program occassionally hangs (about 20% of the time). I have to end task on it. It seems as though it's still trying to rename the file, but it takes nearly 10-20 seconds to rename one file. After and end task & restart it operates normally & quickly. I don't recall if this hanging occured while using other tabs though.

Edited by cupon on June 27 2005,11:39

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Posted: June 27 2005,12:48

This may possibly be related to the problem discussed in the following thread:

http://www.magnusbrading.com/cgi-bin....1;t=976

It does not necessarily have to do with the Explorer dir tree.

If anyone can send me an mp3 file that consistently reproduces any such problem, I'd be happy to take a look at it.

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Posted: July 09 2005,04:54

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Does this problem ("Thread creation error"...) happen to anyone else reading this?

I've seen that error before, but not very often. I think I have something that may be related. Whenever I run MP3/TS on a large directory, previews are speedy as normal, but actual execution takes several minutes per file. (I'm not sure exactly how long, but it could be about 10 minutes or more, each.) It seems to relate to some "magic" number of files in the directory -- if I process files in a dir containing over 1500 entries, even if I only select a few files, each one takes long enough to go out for coffee.

What makes it even more frustrating is the lack of any way to abort the process without ending the program's task and losing all my selections and settings. The only way I was able to work around this was to move the files I want to tweak into their own folder. I don't know of any good way to predict whether the problem will occur, either, except by checking the number of files.

I'd be willing to try that test build you mention in the other thread -- you can use the email address in my forum registration.

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Posted: July 10 2005,18:45

Thanks for the info, I have sent the special build to you Llamatron. Please report your results back here.

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Posted: July 17 2005,11:21

Hello,

I have found a problem when I used the "Autorename from Tags" with the following ouput file format :
<Artist><\><Album><\><TrackNr> - <Title>.mp3

If I run it several times, I end up with a structure like that :

Artist\Album\Artist\Album\Track Nr - Title.mp3.

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Posted: July 17 2005,13:18

Hi Marcel, that is not a bug. With that template you do actually tell Mp3/Tag Studio to create directories under the current directory, and then move the files into these directories.

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Posted: July 17 2005,22:00

Beta 12 is released, here's what's added/fixed:

* Added a context menu option for all status/warning/error boxes, enabling the user to save the contents to a chosen text file on disk.

* Fixed a bug that would under some conditions cause Mp3/Tag Studio to slow down or even crash with an error message ("Thread creation error...") when auto-renaming mp3 files. This bug was introduced in beta 10.

* Fixed the problems with manual refreshes of the Explorer dirtree.

* Fixed a bug that would under certain conditions cause the program to fail including certain mp3 info when creating custom lists.

* Fixed a bug that would under certain conditions attempt to extract mp3 encoding info from non-mp3 files when creating custom lists.

* Fixed a bug that caused the mass set tool not to display the changes in some ID3v2 fields in preview mode.

* Fixed a bug that under certain conditions caused ID3v2 comment frames with non-standard content descriptors to be removed when tagging files.

* Fixed a problem that caused the program not to switch working directory when the directory was selected from the Explorer dirtree by using the keyboard instead of the mouse.

* Fixed a bug that would cause the filter not to work properly if only filtering based on mp3 stereo mode was used.

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Posted: July 19 2005,12:52

Beta 14 was just released (I skipped beta 13 for good luck

), here's what's added/fixed:

* Fixed a problem related to refreshing the Explorer dirtree, introduced in the beta 12 version that was released two days ago.

* Re-enabled the auto update feature of the Explorer dirtree.

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Posted: July 21 2005,06:24

The browser tree keeps flickering every few seconds. My cursor changes to an hourglass symbol. I assume this is related to auto-refresh? The flickering is annoying.

Also, all folders are preceeded with a + (expansion) symbol, even though there's no subdirectory within. I prefer how the old directory tree used to work. I'm sure this is by design, although it's counter-intuitive.

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Posted: July 21 2005,07:52

Aaaaaarrrrrgggghhhhh!
No! What happened?

Magnus, it appears that the "invert selection" from the context menu in the custom files box has gone.
Please, please bring it back (when you get a chance!

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I love that feature.

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Posted: July 21 2005,07:54

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Magnus, it appears that the "invert selection" from the context menu in the custom files box has gone.

I'm seeing invert selection. I'm using Beta 14.

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Posted: July 21 2005,07:55

one other thing... that crazy ampersand is back in the advanced string templates (maybe it never went away... not sure)

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Posted: July 21 2005,10:56

noddy:
I think you must have installed an older version by mistake. Just like cupon says, the invert selection feature is still there, and the ampersand in the advanced templates is nowhere to be found? Damn, you really scared me into believeing that I based beta 14 on an older code branch there for a moment, phew...

cupon:
I have not seen the flickering myself, it might indicate that some program is periodically touching the files in your directories. But I can make the auto-update feature an option anyway, no problem.
About the plus signs, yeah, I noticed that too. The problem is that no Explorer tree component is perfect (why does that always keep happening in the rare cases I use components not designed by myself?

), so they all have some small disadvantage that it seems you have to live with. The last one I used had no possible way to manually refresh, so it had to go since this outweights the plus sign problem, but I do of course completely agree it's annoying. I'll do my best to fix it later anyway.

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Posted: July 21 2005,12:29

Geez, don't I feel like a googhead!

You know what happened?
I was up to date with the betas. I was running 13, and I installed 14 a day or 2 ago (whenever it was released), but shortly after that, I 'ghosted' my system back from an image that was about 3 months old... and it had beta 10, and it hadn't clicked with me.
So sorry for the scare, Magnus!
You're good.

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Posted: July 24 2005,09:01

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Thanks for the info, I have sent the special build to you Llamatron. Please report your results back here.

Just checking back with an update, even though technically this wouldn't go in this topic.

The special build didn't do the trick, Magnus, but I see you've fixed the slowdown problem somewhere along the line since then. Good job!

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Magnus, in the next beta could you please modify the function that needs to keep a lock on the working directory. I often want to move the folder that I've just been working on straight after making tag updates. Windows Explorer always gives an error because tag studio still has a lock on the folder until i explicitly move off it. It might be that you're holding the lock so that undo will work, but couldn't you change it so it still handles the exception that the folder is missing?

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Titanium,
Just a heads up that Magnus is still on holidays. He'll be back in circulation around the 11th (2 more days or thereabouts), and I'm sure he'll respond to your request then.

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Posted: Aug. 11 2005,21:48

Titanium, simply press the "up one level" button just to the right of the working directory box before moving the dir, and it will be fine, only one quick mouse click.

There are several problems involved with not locking the working dir like this, so I will most likely not change this at this point, but thanks for you input in any case.

And thanks noddy for holding the fort while I was away :praise:

, now I'm back anyway, so you can relax again.

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Posted: Aug. 25 2005,16:29

Hi All. First off, gratuitous praise, I used MP3TS back about a year ago, (3.05 days) and while I liked it, I wasn't quite enamoured with it.

Comming back to Beta 14 it seems that maybe I just didn't spend enough time with it as it's gotten much more useful for me.

On to the report:
Running Win2k, updated to the latest everything from MS. My MP3 directory is a mapped drive over a network. It seems that MP3TS frequently "refreshes" the folder structure on me, which causes pauses in my input or changes. But that's not a huge deal, I guess maybe its just the delay over the network (though its an almost totally unused 100baseT link through a single switch). I do run i a fairly "low memory" situation (192Mb total) on a PIII 500mhz if that makes a difference.

The thing that does cause me trouble, and its not "simple" to repeat but I can have it happen fairly reliably is this. All my mp3's are albums, and I maintain them in a folderstructure of <alphabetic letter> - <Artist> - <Album> - <Disc 1/2 etc>-<Songs>

When I change the album name (or I find it out for bootlegs) I want to change the Folder for the Album. What I do is RightClick on the folder in the Treeview, and hit Properties. Then I change the "Name" window and hit OK. This works reliably enough. However, if I rightclick on a folder, and when the menu comes up (open, explore, Send To, Cut, Copy, etc) I click on another part of the MP3TS studio window (essentially to dismiss the menu) the menu remains on the screen and MP3TS stops responding. I can switch to any other apps, and they will work, but MP3TS will have around 70% of my CPU and will neither dismiss the context menu, or return to being responsive.

I thought maybe it was trying to "process something" so I went into task manager and gave it "HIGH" priority, but it would simply grab 99% of the CPU but even after 20 minutes wouldn't dismiss the menu or return to normal function. I then Force quit MP3TS and it went away along with that menu.

I can fairly reliably reproduce this problem. At first I thought maybe the two things were related (i.e. the refresh over the network was happening just as I brought up the context menu and the two got confused or something) but I cant be certain that it is happening at the same time.

Great App. Thanks for all your work.

(Can ya tell that I do Tech Support for a living?)

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Posted: Aug. 26 2005,07:46

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And thanks noddy for holding the fort while I was away :praise:

, now I'm back anyway, so you can relax again.

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Posted: Aug. 26 2005,10:26

Morganti, I have tried with several folders, and also with clicking on several parts of the Mp3/Tag Studio main window to dismiss the menu once it's there, but your problem is never successfully reproduced for me. :ashamed:

Do you have any further details that can more reliably reproduce it you think?

Also, does this happen for anyone else? Noddy?

Theoretically, it could be due to a broken third-party Explorer shell-extension in your computer.

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I'm using Beta 14 under WinXP SP2. Windows doesn' shutdown if mp3ts is running. If I give Windows the shutdown command it starts closing all running applications. This process stops at mp3ts. I have to close it manually and then give windows the shutdown command again. I hope anyone can reproduce this.

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I cannot seem to reproduce this, milsam.

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Posted: Aug. 27 2005,16:35

Beta 15 was just released, here's what's added/fixed:

* Made the auto refresh of the Explorer browse tree optional.

* Fixed a problem with the Explorer browse tree, that made it display expansion icons (plus signs) also for folders that did not contain any subfolders.

* Fixed a problem with the Explorer browse tree, that made it expand or collapse the currently selected folder if it was refreshed.

* Fixed a problem with the Explorer browse tree, that made it flicker when the update button (F5) was pressed while it was selected in the GUI.

* Fixed a problem that under certain conditions could prevent some files from being processed correctly by the Direct Rename tool when the output template contained folder levels.

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Posted: Aug. 27 2005,19:42

I have some songs that is in MP3 Pro format and the statics are wrong.

MP3 Tag Studio 3.5 Beta 5 is report that this:
22050Hz
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Lenght 15 m 24 s

Winamp is reporting this on the song:
MP3 Pro (I have the plug-in for MP3 Pro)
44kHz but in the properties WinAmp is reporting 22050Hz
Lenght 2:19

So probably only the lenght is being reported wrong in MP3 Tag Studio.

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Posted: Aug. 28 2005,00:28

Hi Magnus,
Sorry it took a while for me to catch up... I've just installed MP3TS on my son's Win98SE box which is connected to my machine via a wireless router.
From his machine, whenever I try to access a folder over the network (ie the folder is actually located on my box), I get an "I/O error 161" and the browse tool fails to show any files in the directory.... so I can't answer the question about trying to rename a folder from within MP3TS.

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Posted: Aug. 28 2005,14:04

gworley, mp3 pro files are not officially supported, sorry (they will work just fine for the tagging and renaming tools anyway though).

noddy, did you really mount this network share as a drive? Raw UNC paths (you know, \\...) are not supported at this point.

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I just wanted to install the upgrade to beta 15 by copying all files from the zip to the install folder. but I get an error. Can't overwrite Mp3tsshx.dll although mp3ts is not running. I can't delete this file, either. This is no big problem because the files from b14 and b15 are equal. I'm just wondering why I can't delete this file.

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Posted: Aug. 28 2005,21:59

Mp3tsshx.dll is the shell extension dll, and it is loaded by Windows Explorer as soon as it is started. If you have a fresh reboot of Windows and haven't started Windows Explorer yet, you should be able to delete it.

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do you think every user know how to delete a file without starting the explorer? maybe its easier to deactivate the shell-extension within the settings of mp3ts, copy over and then reactivate the shell-extension? i dont know if it works - i have deactiveted the shell-extension "by default" cause i dont use it and dont like such things like too much entrys in the context menu.

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I cannot quit MP3TS3.5(B15) if a MP3 file has been selected. The banner is closed, but the rest of the application hangs. I get a "program is not responding" dialog, but the process still must be closed from the task manager.

It also starts the process epmwor~1.exe, which has to do with syncronisation with my SonyEricson phone...

If i start the program and exit without selecting any mp3 file, it exits without errors.

I was running Beta14 without problems, but unfortunately I can't downgrade.

Any suggestions?

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Posted: Aug. 30 2005,19:03

Sounds really strange. Exactly what do you mean by "when a file has been selected"? In which tool? Please tell me in detail so that I and other people can try to reproduce the problem.

Does anyone else recognize this?

And the combination with the other exe indicates that the problem might (at least in part) be in your system, since Mp3/Tag Studio does surely not contain any such code to start other programs, especially not completely unrelated programs like this.

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Posted: Sep. 01 2005,16:27

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noddy, did you really mount this network share as a drive? Raw UNC paths (you know, \\...) are not supported at this point.

Oh well, maybe that's the problem then!

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I've been checking up on my problem. It seems as though MP3TS loads "fmgrsrv.exe", which in turns loads "epmworker.exe". And I actually don't have to do anything apart from starting Mp3TS and enable the explorer browse tree.

Fmgrsrv.exe is the SonyEricson file manager, a program to access the internal memory of a connected mobile phone.
Now why would Mp3TS do that?! I don't know... In the old release, beta 14, Mp3TS always checked for a floppy disk in the drive. You know, it made a rattling sound with the drive. Perhaps it is doing something similar now, but with my SE phone? There is no difference if the phone is connected or not, I should mention.
Something must have changed between beta 14 and 15, since 14 worked just fine. And my SE software has not been updated.

Is there anyway that I can log the crash? Perhaps that could give you some insight into what has happened?

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Posted: Sep. 02 2005,20:45

The Explorer browse tree in Mp3/Tag Studio is actually partly an instance of the Windows Explorer in you computer. Windows Explorer in turn has something called "shell extensions", which is addons that can be installed into Windows Explorer, for example to add items to the context menus (right-click menus) or similar, and this is most likely what the Sony/Ericson software has done in your computer.

Something in turn in this shell extension is apparently incompatible with some instances of Windows Explorer, e.g. the one in Mp3/Tag Studio, and hence it is malfunctioning starting the program you mention. This code is executed inside the Mp3/Tag Studio process, but it is still their own code, not mine.

This means that it rather seems to be a bug in the Sony/Ericson shell extension which I cannot possibly solve, but rather they must do it. Sorry about that.

Please try to contact them and see what they can do about it.

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Posted: Sep. 05 2005,02:35

I downloaded 3.5 beta15 and before installing it, deleted the version I had previously saved (probably beta 12, beta 13, or beta 14, I can’t remember). Anyway, the new version does not work on my system—it crashes on startup (I just get the typical Windows error message box; the program itself never shows up).

The most recent beta I was able to find from a backup was beta 8. I reverted back to it and it works.

I haven't read the previous many messages in this thread, so I don't know whether this has already been discussed, but clearly (since you did release beta 15) this doesn't happen on all systems.

I'm running Windows XP SP 2 on a 3.0GHz Pentium D system with 2Gb or RAM and a ~500Gb RAID 0 array. If this crashing problem hasn't been reported previously and you don't know the cause, please email me two or three previous betas and I'll try them one at a time to see which beta introduced the problem.

My Mp3/Tag Studio is registered.

Edited by Ville on Sep. 05 2005,02:38

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Posted: Sep. 05 2005,09:08

I found beta 14.. it works. So something that changed between 14 and 15 causes the crash.

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Posted: Sep. 05 2005,09:43

Very strange, noone else has reported this, and I cannot reproduce it myself.

So, you are very welcome to submit any details that can lead me closer to what the problem might be.

Has anyone else seen anything like this?

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Posted: Sep. 05 2005,19:47

I uninstalled beta14, reinstalled beta 15, and this (the attachment) is what I get. Then I went back to beta14.. works again

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My system is fairly carefully set up (new installation) and while it has plenty of software installed, it shouldn't have anything really bizarre running on it.

How can I provide more debug info? If you would like to send me a version that writes log of what it does, I would be glad to run it on the system. Or, if there is some debug program I could use to run a trace on what it does, I could do that. I think Visual Studio has a debugger, so I should maybe install it; if I remember correctly it offers to debug programs that crash (but I'm not sure if that kinds of results would be useful to you).

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Posted: Sep. 05 2005,20:53

Thanks for your information and offer to help. The best thing you can do is to try to track down any external factors contributing to this crash. The best thing would be to install it on another similar computer where it works, and then install the remaining software products one by one, and seeing which one is causing this.

It still seems to me that the problem is local, since no one else has reported this problem at all. My guess would be that it is in some of the shell extensions installed on your system (since the new Explorer tree loads them just like Windows Explorer itself does).

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Posted: Sep. 05 2005,22:49

Ah, that would be a major pain to do... :disagree:

What changed (from the development point-of-view) between 14 and 15? In other words, why would 15 be more sensitive to Explorer extensions than 14?

Also, is there a location in the registry where all the explorer extensions (that would affect Tag/Studio) are listed? If there was a way to disable them one by one, it would be much more doable than starting a new installation (I don't have a "free" computer for such test right now).

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Posted: Sep. 06 2005,11:25

I'm using a third-party control for the Explorer tree, and it was updated by its vendor between beta 14 and 15, which may explain this difference between the versions.

Anyway, here is a free tool that can be used to disable and re-enable shell extensions:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

For this kind of problem, it might require a reboot after having disabled the shell extensions to take effect, even if they are no longer showing in Windows Explorer.

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Posted: Sep. 06 2005,17:00

Thanks for the info! I'll have to do some investigation (261 extensions currently in use, so...

), and I'll get back in a few days. Even if there's nothing that you can do Mp3/Tag Studio-wise about the problem, it is probably useful to know—for future reference—which program(s) cause it to crash. Maybe even the 3rd party Explorer tree control manufacturer could be notified of the problem.

But let's see first if I can localize the problem.

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Posted: Sep. 06 2005,22:30

Thanks, I'm looking forward to this info from you.

And yes, as long as we can track the problem down better, I will notify the manufacturer of the Explorer tree control too.

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Posted: Sep. 11 2005,07:28

No luck, yet. I have couple of questions to help with debugging:

Firstly, what is the manufacturer of the 3rd party Explorer extension you're using? I'd like to do some research on it if I knew it's manufacturer/name.

Secondly, what kind of extensions do you believe are most suspect? ShellEx View lists Shell Folder, System, Explorer Bar, Context Menu, IE Toolbar, etc. extensions.

I tried beta 15 on my wife's PC and on my work PC. It works on both of them. Those computers combined have most of the software mine (where beta 15 doesn't work) has, and in fact, overlap analysis of the ShellEx View output leaves me with just couple of items that don't sound like they would cause the problem (like Adobe PDF extension). I didn't check extension version numbers, though, so maybe I have a more recent version of something that is on my work PC, or on my wife's PC. Go figure... I'd really like to continue using Mp3/Tag Studio on my computer, though, without having to reinstall everything. So I'll have to look into it more.

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Posted: Sep. 11 2005,16:28

It is very hard to tell which shell extensions would be most suspect, since such a problem would be on another level than that of the main functionality of the shell extension. It could practically be anything.

If you want further details about the Explorer tree, please contact me by email, I don't want to unnecessarily discuss the inner workings of the program in public.

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Posted: Sep. 11 2005,17:22

Hello:

I'm just writing to indicate that I've experienced the same problem as Ville, in that MP3TS works fine in Beta14, but crashes upon startup in Beta15.

Please let me know if there is anything that I can do to help diagnose the problem.

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Posted: Sep. 11 2005,17:54

Hi Brian, thanks for letting us know, it is always better to have information and ideas from more people about a problem like this.

Please, both of you, try this patch (replace the original Mp3/Tag Studio exe file with it) and see if it works any better. Please report your results back here in this thread.

http://www.magnusbrading.com/ftp/mp3ts35b15_test.zip

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Posted: Sep. 11 2005,18:08

Magnus, that didn't help

. If you want to write a test version that writes to a log where it crashes, I can try that as well (or any other test-version you might want to try). I also tried to see if starting in Windows Safe Mode would help as fewer drivers, etc. are loaded then — it didn't.

Brian, there's likely something in common with our PCs that causes the program to crash. Probably more likely software than hardware, but just in case.. my H/W is Pentium D 3.0GHz, 2Gb RAM, ~500Gb hard drive space, and Matrox APVe video card.

Software... there is lots; I wonder if it would be meaningful to compare ShellEx View listings between our systems?

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Posted: Sep. 11 2005,20:44

Ok, thanks for the test and for your offer to help finding and fixing this issue Ville.

It would be great if you could download and test run this small program I just prepared, and let me know about the results (does it crash or not):

http://www.magnusbrading.com/ftp/debug_test.zip

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Posted: Sep. 12 2005,07:32

And here's the result:

test_me.exe crashes on my system the same way the beta 15 does (»test_me.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.»)

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Posted: Sep. 12 2005,08:22

Yes!!! That's what I was hoping for! This brings us a lot closer to the solution, since this small test program only contains an Explorer tree and nothing else! This means that the problem is indeed with the Explorer tree, or something related to it compatibility-wise anyway.

I will now contact the authors of this component, so that they can help us try to fix it, and it would be great if you could hang around to be able assist with testing too.

Thanks guys!

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Posted: Sep. 17 2005,12:30

Hello:

I tried to test the first file and it had been removed from the system. Sorry it took me so long to get back here.

I was able to try the second file and indeed it crashed just as in Ville's case. Seems like he and I are having the same type of issue.

I would tend to agree that Ville and I both must have some software installed that is confilcting. I doubt that the issue is hardware related.

Please let me know if there is anything else that I can try.

Thank you.

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Posted: Sep. 17 2005,17:17

With the help of Ville, I have managed to make the vendor of the component in question identify the code that triggers this third-party software problem, and eliminate it. An updated version of Mp3/Tag Studio where this problem is fixed will be released shortly (i.e. even thought the problem was not really in Mp3/Tag Studio, this is a workaround that does not trigger this bug in the affected third-party software).

Here is a new sample file which should work fine for you, please test it just to be sure, and report back your results here:

http://www.magnusbrading.com/ftp/debug_test_2.zip

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Posted: Sep. 19 2005,00:18

Beta 16 was just released, here's what's added/fixed:

* Fixed some problems in a third-party component, which could in turn trigger certain bugs in other third-party programs (e.g. crashes and unexpected program starts).

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Posted: Sep. 20 2005,03:35

Beta 16 works well! As expected after the Explorer extension fix, no more crashes!!

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Posted: Sep. 20 2005,10:06

Great, I'm glad to hear it. And thanks for your help with reproducing the problem and testing new code on your computer so that I could fix it Ville! :praise:

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Posted: Sep. 21 2005,03:57

Hello:

Success here too. Beta 16 fixed the issue.

Thanks Magnus!

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Posted: Oct. 24 2005,16:43

I've just installed beta 16, and I have a problem. It seemed to be working correctly, but suddenly when have a blank template in the tag-from-filename tab and I add <TRASH> I get an < > (template item with a single blank between the delimiters. It shows in red, and once it is there I can't get rid of it, other than going into advanced mode. When I switch back to non-advanced mode it pops up again. Note that this only seems to happen when adding <TRASH> to an empty template.

Closing Mp3/Tag Studio seems to clear this, but once it is present I have found no way of removing it.

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Posted: Oct. 24 2005,18:31

Thanks for the report, I have successfully reproduced it, and will look into it for the next update.

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Posted: Oct. 27 2005,04:55

Me again. Another problem which might be related to the previous bug report. In the "tag or rename from list" tab I have a <title> item in the format, but it is not checked. This one I haven't figured out HOW to get rid of!

I can e-mail a screen-shot if you wish.

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Posted: Oct. 27 2005,11:29

Thanks again, seems to be related to the same problem. I got rid of it by clicking and unclicking the Title box though. It will be fixed too anyway.

Btw, the direct rename tool has the same problem too (with the empty < >), and in that one I couldn't get rid of it (i.e. from the perspective of a normal user), so please don't try it in this one.

And yeah, as a workaround in the worst case you can of course always get rid of it (together will all your other settings though) by deleting the file "mp3ts.dat" in the Mp3/Tag Studio installation folder.

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Posted: Nov. 05 2005,06:46

I just found this program on the web today and thought I'd try it out before registering.

I'm getting the following error using Beta 16:

Access violation at address 00402B6D in module 'mp3tag_s.exe'. Read of address 02B2FFFC.

The error always occurs at exactly the same point when I'm processing my mp3 library using Direct tag manipulation. I have the Include subdirs box selected. I tried the presets for v1->v2 and sync v1/v2 tags and it the error occurs in the same place in either case (48%)

I tried it on a completely different computer with a different set of mp3 files, and the same thing happened, but at 51% this time.

If this is being caused by one or more of my files, how can I tell which ones? Is it the last file listed in the status box? It says it successfully wrote tag data.

I'll happily pay for the program if/when I'm convinced it will make it through my entire mp3 library without quitting.

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Posted: Nov. 05 2005,17:45

This sounds very much to be due to corruption in the ID3v2 tags, and there has been no other reports of such a thing. The status text will not be written until the processing of a file is complete, so you can't sadly take it from there.

My tip to find an example of an offending file would be to start with an mp3 collection that causes this problem, and then halve the collection and re-process until the problem does not occur anymore, then you will for each step know in which half the file is. Then you will quite quickly find an offending file even if the collection is big.

If you then send this sample file to me I can analyze the problem for you.

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Posted: Nov. 08 2005,08:43

Hi, Magnus -- I've got one for you.

It looks like the Comment field in both "Mass set tags/flags" and "Browse/edit tags/flags" won't take any text (beta 16 and earlier).

Also, if I'm doing "rename from tags" and the selected files have no tags (resulting in no files able to be processed), after you to okay the dialog reporting the problem (when it's configured to be displayed) you also have to click away the empty "preview" window. Please consider suppressing this second window since it's of no use -- at least, not if the first window's displayed.

Edited by Llamatron on Nov. 08 2005,08:48

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Posted: Nov. 08 2005,10:08

Please see this thread about the comment field problem:

http://www.magnusbrading.com/cgi-bin....;t=1059

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Posted: Nov. 18 2005,20:55

Here's a small bug: if you're at the "browse/edit tags/flags" pane and you open the string dialog to rename a file, tapping ESC does close that dialog unchanged, as it should, but it triggers a beep as if there were an error.

Also, the only reason I usually need to open the rename dialog and then cancel is when filenames go beyond the display area. Tooltips would be helpful here and in the "custom file selection" listview showing the full filename.

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Posted: Nov. 18 2005,21:14

Speaking of tooltips, one bug I keep seeing and forgetting to report appears on the pane "Auto tag (from filenames)". If you accidentally mouse across the advanced mode description (triggering the "last filename" tooltip) and then click Execute, the tooltip remains over the preview window, and no amount of clicking or moving the window will let you close it.

I think the only way it happens is if you click Execute and then move the mouse back over the "advanced mode" description while Tag Studio's building the preview.

Edited by Llamatron on Nov. 18 2005,21:22

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Posted: Nov. 18 2005,21:34

I just tried a file renaming template for the first time that creates a folder:

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<Album><\><Artist> - <Title>.mp3

When I then went to rename the directory to a shorter name, i discovered that Tag Studio still had it locked. Please remove any locks after processing.

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Posted: Nov. 20 2005,14:08

Thanks for the reports, they have been noted.

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Posted: Dec. 09 2005,03:32

Got another one I keep forgetting to post! The Processing Results Preview window doesn't honor taskbar positions, so unless I size it just right it comes up behind the taskbar. (And by the same token it's vertically off-center.) Currently I lose about 100 pixels of screen real estate at the top if I size it to always come up fully visible.

Edited by Llamatron on Dec. 09 2005,03:44

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Posted: Dec. 09 2005,10:57

Ok, I see, are you running 800x600 resolution? In higher resolutions this is not really an issue, so that's why I haven't bothered to count it in.

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Posted: Dec. 11 2005,17:30

Hi Magnus,

Been busy I see. I just downloaded your new (new for me) beta 16.
Never did this before (never had reason to) but tried to perform a "seemingly" simply field truncation and it was for some reason invalid.

*TAB* Auto rename (from tags)
*checked* Advanced mode

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<Title:4>.mp3

Setting the file name to the first 4 characters of the "Title" would 'seem' to be this simply, but is apparently invalid (red code and grayed "Execute"). What am I missing?!

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Posted: Dec. 12 2005,10:56

The thing you are missing is that fixed-length fields always have to have an adjacent field in a valid template, so the program knows what to do with the remaining characters.

I'm not completely sure about what your intended operation is, but it seems like the correct template equivalent to the one in your post would be the following:

<Title:4><TRASH>.mp3

This will parse out the first four characters to the title field in the auto tag tool.

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Posted: Jan. 01 2006,21:34

Windows and mp3 tag studio sort their letters diffrently.

Windows thinks that v and w is the sam letter. Mp3 Tag Studio knows that they are different. But...

Mp3 Tag Studio thinks that "ä" comes befor "å".

So when you tag from files it becoms a big problem sorting them out.. :disagree:

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Posted: Jan. 02 2006,13:38

Different versions of Windows sort letters differently, so it is not completely easy to behave consistently with them all. This might be improved in a future version of Mp3/Tag Studio though.

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Posted: Feb. 05 2006,03:39

Quote (Magnus Brading @ Dec. 09 2005,04:57)

Ok, I see, are you running 800x600 resolution? In higher resolutions this is not really an issue, so that's why I haven't bothered to count it in.

Ah, but it is.

Sorry it took me awhile to get back to you (about the Processing Results Preview window size & position).

I'm running at 1024x768 when it comes up behind the taskbar. (My taskbar is double height and sometimes I run another toolbar, but both items set the available "desktop size" area properly, and the icons rearrange accordingly.)

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Posted: Feb. 07 2006,11:50

Ok, strange, I will look into it.

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Posted: Mar. 10 2006,05:01

Thanks, Magnus! Got a new bug report: I set Tag Studio to prefer v2 tags, but during "rename from tags" if full info is in the v1 tag but only partial info is in the v2 tag, Tag Studio just reports that some fields are missing. I don't know of an existing solution to that.

Please consider including logic to pull from the v1 tag if the v2 side has gaps. I don't know why anybody would do tags that way, but at least one of my friends seems to do it that way. (Maybe a broken editor, I dunno.)

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Posted: Mar. 10 2006,12:24

I considered such a feature previously, but rejected it because many times you would _want_ those fields to be empty, and the files are incorrectly tagged to begin with.

If the files are incorrectly tagged like this, they will be reported as having unsynchronized tags in Mp3/Tag Studio, and it can be fixed with the direct tag manipulation tool instead.

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Posted: Mar. 10 2006,17:19

Quote (Magnus Brading @ Mar. 10 2006,06:24)

I considered such a feature previously, but rejected it because many times you would _want_ those fields to be empty [...]

Really? Wow, I didn't realize there would be any use in having them empty on one side or the other. But in the rename UI, there's no indication that they're unsynchronized -- just that info is missing.

Same with the context-menu version; it just takes the standard "<artist> - <title>.mp3" format and leaves out whatever isn't in the v2 tag. Since there's no "undo" capability with the ShellEx, it makes it especially tedious to recover.

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Posted: Mar. 10 2006,17:35

Yes, but if you want good quality of your tags, you still have to go through them once for all new mp3s you acquire, and after this first sweep everything will be fine.

Also, if you want those tools you mention to single out files with unsynchronized tags, simply apply a filter that says so, and presto, it will be done.

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Posted: Mar. 10 2006,19:39

Quote (Magnus Brading @ Mar. 10 2006,11:35)

Yes, but if you want good quality of your tags, you still have to go through them once for all new mp3s you acquire

True, but I guess my main use for the program is filenames that make sense. For most file managers that and the name extention/suffix are the primary indicators of the contents. It's nice to have synchronized tags, but it's rather resource-intensive for a huge collection.

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Posted: April 14 2006,18:17

Beta 17 was just released, here's what's added/fixed:

* Fixed a problem with using multi-row values in macro recordings.

* Fixed a problem that under certain conditions could cause a non-removable empty field to appear in templates.

* Fixed a problem that could erroneously display the non-saved tag data confirmation message in the browse tool.

* Fixed a problem where a settings value was not remembered between program executions.

* Updated third-party controls to latest versions.

* Fixed some smaller GUI bugs.

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Posted: April 23 2006,01:59

hi magnus & tnx for the program
i have a little problem since i was 'forced' :-) to update the version: when mass cleaning tags (i do have some files that need to) now i receive "grid index out of range". Is it smth i need to fix before cleaning tags? i never had this problem before (with the previous version)
well... i came upon the program just 2 months before if it helps for my experience with it
anyhow, would be grateful for your hint
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Posted: April 23 2006,20:09

Quote (Guest @ April 23 2006,01:59)

"when mass cleaning tags"
well... it is not only in this case
i get this reply even when trying to rename some tags
tnx again

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Posted: April 23 2006,23:44

Thanks for the report, this sounds like a possible bug indeed.

I cannot directly reproduce it though, are there any particular conditions under which this problem occurs, only for some special files etc? Or does it always happen, for all folders, all configurations of Mp3/Tag Studio and all files? Please play around with it a little bit more if possible, and report back with more details about how to reproduce it, and I will look into it ASAP.

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Posted: April 25 2006,01:02

yes, it happens all the time :confused:

from the tab 'browse/edit tags & flags' the program allows me to fix the tags for files that are ok (i even ripped one anew just for the try) but after that when selecting 'auto rename (from tags)' i receive the message 'grid index out of range'. The button 'execute' becomes inactive and though 'cancel' is active the program blocks - have to restart it. when dealing with bad files (for which tag studio is 'unable to extract mp3 info from the file' - have to confess: have them plenty) it doesn't allow me to manipulate tags at all: it needs first tags to be cleaned but with this version i keep receiving the message 'grid index out of range'. the only way to get around this was to remove this version and to set up mp3ts305 unlimitted.
i don't put extra stuff in the info - no genre, usually no comment; in 'write to..' is selected 'both'; i don't use any filters - :confused:

don't know yet... hope i will
hope also this info will help
still there is a chance that i cannot make it work - there are not other similar complaints ;-)
take care... i'll drop in in 2-3 days
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Posted: April 25 2006,14:30

I still cannot seem to reproduce this problem, so it would be great if you could submit a step-by-step instruction of how to do.

For example:

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Start Mp3/Tag Studio.

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Press the browse button and select the working dir xxx.

3.
Switch to the yyy tab.

4.
Press the zzz button.

etc.

Also please let me know which version of Windows you're using, and send a screenshot of the tool that you're trying to use in the step-by-step instructions just before you press the execute button, e.g. the "Auto rename" tool like in your post above.

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Posted: June 01 2006,22:36

hi magnus

sorry for the delay (some bad time... it happens)
i'm sending you an e-mail with a text doc. attachment. please, let me know if you receive it, because i'm not quite sure how i can post the screenshots here

take care
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Posted: June 03 2006,22:40

I didn't receive any such document yet, could you try to send it again? Also, please don't send a doc-attachment, only pure text and separate image attachments.

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Posted: June 05 2006,17:02

hi magnus
i sent you again the message with only image attachments (jpeg)
will drop here later ;-)
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Posted: June 13 2006,00:24

A few bug reports:

1. TS is reporting a shellex (command line) macro error on a file that works fine from the GUI.

2. The auto tag (from filename) template is case sensitive. That may be useful as an option, but as a default it's very limiting.

3. The error window comes up behind the macro windows -- in the example it worked out since the button was visible, but if the dialogs had been moved out of the way to the bottom right corner there would've been no way to click it. (The foreground windows trigger a SysBeep because they're modal.)

Edited by Llamatron on June 29 2006,05:41

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Posted: June 14 2006,00:20

Thanks for the reports. Could you please clarify #2 a bit Llamatron?

And dana, I will analyze your problem further soon too, thanks for the email.

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Posted: June 14 2006,02:17

You bet. I was running the filename "the" trimmer macro (I think it's one you included with Studio, isn't it?) and I accidentally had a few files selected that didn't fit the pattern of starting with "the".

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Posted: June 14 2006,10:08

No, this macro is not included in the installation package, so I'm afraid you'll have to report this macro problem to the Llamatron macro support instead.

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Windows Vista Beta 2 Build 5384 (32bit version)
gets this error whenever attempting to open the program:
"mp3tag_s.exe has stopped working"

Problem persists despite adjustments to compatibility mode.

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Posted: June 14 2006,19:12

Magnus, no problem there -- I know why the macro had the error dialog. What I'm talking about is the window stack.

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Posted: June 14 2006,23:35

Window stack? Weren't we talking about the "the" macro?

(And the Vista issue sounds interesting, but I won't be able to analyze it until I get a Vista box to experiment myself though, but thanks for the tip anyway! )

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Posted: June 15 2006,01:32

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Window stack? Weren't we talking about the "the" macro?

Nahh. The specific macro is incidental to the GUI issue described.

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Posted: June 28 2006,19:34

Quote (Magnus Brading @ June 14 2006,17:35)

Window stack? Weren't we talking about the "the" macro?

Magnus, was I able to explain the issue okay? The error window comes up behind the macro windows -- in the example it worked out (since the button was visible) but if the dialogs had been moved out of the way to the bottom right corner there would've been no way to click it. (The foreground windows trigger a SysBeep because they're modal -- they can't be moved.)

Just to recap other scattered reports still valid for the current version of TS:

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2. The auto tag (from filename) template is case sensitive.

3. If you're at the "browse/edit tags/flags" pane and you open the dialog to rename a file, tapping ESC closes that dialog unchanged as it should but it triggers a beep as if there were an error.

4. The reason I usually need to open the rename dialog and then cancel is when filenames go beyond the display area -- I don't know another way from TS to see them. Tooltips would be helpful here and in the "custom file selection" listview showing the filename.

5. On the pane "Auto tag (from filenames)", if you trigger the "last filename" tooltip and then click Execute, the tooltip remains over the preview window obscuring whatever's underneath, and no amount of clicking or moving the window will let you get rid of it.

6. After a file renaming template that creates a folder (like <Album><\><Artist> - <Title>.mp3) when I went to rename the directory to a shorter name, I discovered that Tag Studio still had it locked. Please remove any locks after processing.

7. TS is reporting a context menu (or command line) macro error of non-existing path for a file that works fine from the GUI.

8. On various file operations, if there are no items that meet the criteria you still get the (empty) preview window. If there's any user settings error that results in the empty set, you then have the normal error dialog to deal with (followed by the empty preview).

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Posted: July 09 2006,23:22

I am using the latest build of this program and I am coming across the problem mentioned before with the "Windows Explorere has encountered a problems and needs to close...etc" It doesn't seem to happen when I just open the program, but instead everytime I right click and choose the rename tag to format option. Is there an earlier build I can try? My problem is just as the other person described when he posted the screenshot.

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Posted: July 09 2006,23:48

Mmk, just as random progress...this frustrated me...mainly because I have lots of music to organize...So...
I plugged in my external drive and started doing the same with the music on there...worked fine. I think my next thing is going to be moving the unorganized music to the external hard drive...but hopefully there is some fix for this, because it worked fine for a while...then started giving me explorer problems.
I suppose this is what I get for using Windoze, I think linux has scripts to do this for you without a program.

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Posted: July 10 2006,13:04

My guess is that some program in your computer has started locking these files on your disk, in turn triggering this bug in the Mp3/Tag Studio shell extension (whenever this bug occurs, the files would not have been able to be processed anyway, it's just the crash that's really added by the bug, but it should of course be fixed anyway).

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Posted: July 27 2006,08:40

Ok, well, it does it on the external as well. It's basically the same problem the other guy had a while back. Sorry I can't give you more information to fix the problem though.

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Posted: July 27 2006,09:09

Does this help any...?

I checked...the file is there. I don't understand quite why this would be a problem, but this is the error it gave me. If I try to delete the file, it says it is already in use and does not allow deletion.

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Posted: July 27 2006,15:16

The Almighty Author isn't due back from vacation 'til tomorrow, but I'll through out a question. Is there a chance that you have two instances of mp3/tag Studio open? If so, one could have the file locked, while the other is trying to use it.

Just a wild guess.

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Posted: July 28 2006,01:29

Shouldn't be that...I pretty much only use the right click drop menu commands, and it's worked multiple times before, there must be some conflict somewhere. I just don't know the software well enough to know what it would be. I'll be patient though. Maybe until then I'll just go back to manual naming. ::cries in agony::

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Posted: July 28 2006,11:49

The shlext.und file is not the real problem, this is just a result of the shell extension crashing on something the first time (after this, Explorer will hold the handle to the shlext.und file, which is an internal file to Mp3/Tag Studio, holding the undo data).

This error/crash handling should be handled more gracefully by Mp3/Tag Studio though, I agree, closing this handle upon problem, and it is now noted for fixing.

The real problem is to find the cause for the initial crash though. Does the crash occur while actually selecting a template to rename with, or just when simply selecting the shell extension option that should display the templates in a submenu?

Have you tried re-installing Mp3/Tag Studio?

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Posted: July 28 2006,16:20

What is happening the the following...it seems as though all the problems start to happen the first time I try to tag a very large selection of files. I select the file, right click and retag to __ and then it will start, bring up that error, tell me explorer is crashing, and close. I used it on my computers at work for a long time doing one or two files, but the first time I tried doing something large, from then on it wouldn't work. I don't know that has any relation to the problem, but it's just something I noticed.

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Posted: July 28 2006,16:38

Ok, new possibility. It doesn't like large selections because large selections include large numbers of already correctly named files. That's when it seems to have a problem, however, I'd prefer to just select all of them than rather organizing them by those not yet named because though I don't know the current tags are correct, I am sure that the filenames are correct.

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Posted: July 29 2006,12:05

This sounds like the typical problem with heavily corrupted ID3v2 tags in some files. The large selection of files itself isn't the problem, but rather the fact that the probability of one corrupted file being included increases with the size of the selection. If you can only find these few corrupted files and fix them once and for all, the crashes will disappear.

See e.g. this recent thread regarding this problem:

http://www.magnusbrading.com/cgi-bin....;t=1229

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Posted: July 29 2006,20:10

Anytime I've recieved an error concerning a file. I stop. Delete the und file, restart, and then name just that file and it works fine. I've found that if I reinstall the program without restarting each time I get the error then it works until the next time I attempt to do a large amount of files already tagged. So for now, I've just been organizing by artist in details view and making sure they all have artist and titles and matching them to the file name, it takes longer, but not as long as naming them all manually.

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Posted: Nov. 23 2006,23:58

Whenever I select any group of files in Windows Explorer that includes the MP3 file I took the time and effort to send at your request, Magnus, Tag Studio throws four consecutive (idential) dialogs. This significantly impairs my use of other files in the same directory, not to mention the file itself.

Winamp, EncSpot, MPTrim, MP3DirectCut, and a host of other reputable programs can find no problem with this file, even though two above are specifically designed to diagnose MP3 files. Can you tell me if a fix is pending?

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Posted: Nov. 24 2006,00:48

Well, I guess all those "reputable ID3v2 tag analyzer programs" (err, not...) just close their eyes when they find something they don't recognize then (and seeing that tag processing is not the main area of use for any of them, that might very well be a good idea), because I just took a quick look at the file, and just as suspected, the ID3v2 tag is indeed corrupted/non-compliant.

Very easily solved with Mp3/Tag Studio though, just delete the ID3v2 tag, then restore it with the data from the ID3v1 tag.

And the next time you manage to find some mutant corrupted tag in some odd mp3 file under a rock, please don't be such an a-hole and publicly blame Mp3/Tag Studio for being broken just because it cannot read all the data from it (not to mention demand that I should analyze it within your personally decided time limits), ok? Repeated bad behavior like that will get you kicked from the board.

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Posted: Nov. 24 2006,02:20

They are reputable. That's not to say Tag Studio is somehow disreputable, but just possibly it has less of a proven track record. Thank you for checking, though, and although MPTrim is designed to look for nonstandard tags, I will take your word for it that the tag is noncompliant.

You must admit I did wait nearly a month, with not one but two gentle reminders over that time (the second met with silence, and no status updates followed). I have been a strong supporter of your software on other boards, and have tried to contribute usefully to this board as well.

I asked my friend what in the world she used to convert that file, but she doesn't know. I apologize for having said some negative things about the software, but I did stick to the issues instead of resorting to character assassination.

Could I possibly suggest one final thing regarding the issue in question? Compare "programs closing their eyes" with "programs that yell shrilly and often" and see what you think makes sense. Should the act of simply selecting a file trigger four identical dialogs Windows Explorer, every single time something causes a reread of its properties? A single warning dialog makes sense, with a checkbox option saying "don't tell me any more" like you see in other programs.

Please try to put yourself in my shoes and click away those four dialogs several times a day on and off for a month (including the week before I reported the problem) -- it's like the old-fashioned "Chinese water torture" or "death of a thousand cuts". It'll drive you loopy after awhile and make you start to dread logging on, especially with the usual Windows quirks on top of it.

I was apparently operating under a false impression, having trusted various other software packages that have been reliable (all but one of which display tags). I hope you can, at least eventually, accept my apology for the extra hassle.

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Posted: Nov. 25 2006,01:41

Sure, apology accepted then.

While trying out each others shoes though, please try to put yourself in mine too for a second, getting bunches and bunches of people sending in corrupted files that do of course cause different kinds of unexpected behavior in Mp3/Tag Studio, most of them thinking it's because of bugs in Mp3/Tag Studio. Me on the other hand, knows that no single instance of these situations for the last 2-3 years have been due to any bugs in Mp3/Tag Studio, but rather always due to ID3v2 tags with corruptions of gazillions of different types, originating from god knows where. I have thus started to downprioritize these analyses a bit timewise. I should really add a faq entry regarding this too, saying that people should always try to remove/restore the ID3v2 tag before reporting these things.

Anyway, for any possible further comments regarding this subject, please use private email.

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Posted: Nov. 25 2006,06:01

Quote (Magnus Brading @ Nov. 24 2006,19:41)

Anyway, for any possible further comments regarding this subject, please use private email.

Will do. Thanks!

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Posted: Feb. 19 2007,19:38

Beta 18 was just released, here's what's added/fixed:

* Experimental Windows Vista support.

(I don't have any Vista machine to test it on myself, so please go ahead and let me know about your results here in this thread

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Posted: Mar. 01 2007,22:56

Just installed Beta 18 and I am getting quite a lot of Access Violations.

Of course this might be due to corrupt ID3 tags in some files. So I tried to purge the ID3 tags using Mass clean up tags but even this function throws:

Access violation at address 004C5BCB in module 'mp3tag_s.exe'. Read of address 0231C000.

Update: I finally managed to clean up tags. I had to disable preview mode to prevent access violations.

BTW preview mode: I figured that the preview window sometimes shows empty fields although there is actually text written to them, e.g. in Direct tag manipulation using preset for v2 -> v1 conversion.

Edited by schlunz on Mar. 01 2007,23:10

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Posted: Mar. 04 2007,12:28

Thanks for the report, please send me a sample file that produces such a problem in preview mode, if possible.

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Posted: April 01 2007,15:36

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Thanks!

The new Beta version 18 dont run in FINAL VISTA ULTIMATE
after setup finish and run the programm it close with error No in combatible mode (XP SP2) run

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Posted: April 23 2007,11:54

Please see the following thread:

http://www.magnusbrading.com/cgi-bin....;t=1293

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Posted: June 13 2007,15:02

This applies to the "Browse/Edit tags & flags" tab. I have tested it on other tabpages but it works there.

- Start MP3 TS, go to the tab page as normal
- Select any song and go to one of the text fields (Title, artist,...)
- Press the windows popup menu button (or just plain Shift+F10)
- Receive a nice access violation (Read of address 00000000)

You'll get this access violation when keyboard-opening the popup for each field UNTIL you right click the field to conjure the popup menu. (pointers ftw

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After that there are other problems too: When you open the popup menu via the keyboard, the action always applies to the Title field, even with the cursor in another field. With the mouse it works correctly.

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Posted: June 17 2007,23:16

Thanks for the report, I will look into it!

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Posted: July 13 2007,00:13

Macros work in the program.

Macros WORK in the shell extension when pointing over a folder.

...BUT...

None of the macros work when pointed over a bunch of files.

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Posted: July 23 2007,16:08

Yes, there is a known problem with this in the current beta, thanks for reporting.

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Posted: Sep. 01 2007,17:37

Version 3.5 beta 18 doesn't seem to work with Vista x64.

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Posted: Sep. 02 2007,12:24

Yes, this is a known problem. Please see the Vista problem thread for more info about this. Thanks for your report.

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Posted: Sep. 16 2007,12:20

Beta 19 was just released, here's what's added/fixed:

* Improved experimental Windows Vista support.

(I don't have any Vista machine to test it on myself, so please go ahead and let me know about your results here in this thread)

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Posted: Sep. 22 2007,11:44

Please contact me by email for all license related questions, and I will assist you.

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Quote (Magnus Brading @ Sep. 22 2007,11:44)

Please contact me by email for all license related questions, and I will assist you.

Fair enough. I assume you did read the bug report that was in that post before obliterating it?

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Posted: Sep. 26 2007,11:52

Of course, and it had already been reported previously too.

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Posted: Oct. 27 2007,04:59

While using the latest version for Vista I clicked on help and this is what I got.....

Why can't I get Help from this program?

The Help for this program was created in Windows Help format, which was used in previous versions of Windows and it is not supported in Windows Vista.

For more information, see Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) is no longer included with Windows on the Microsoft support website.

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Posted: Oct. 29 2007,16:09

Yes, you can solve this problem by following the instructions at this URL though:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=82148

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Posted: July 12 2008,03:40

mp3 Tag Studio 3.5 Beta 19 (on Windows XP Pro 32-bit Turkish) has trouble reading the Unicode UTF-16 tags written by Winamp 5.531. When mp3 files with such tags are right-clicked and "mp3 Tag Studio" -> "Rename to format Artist - Title" is chosen, the Artist name is improperly suffixed with C, the Title name is improperly suffixed with T, and certain non-Latin characters are improperly transcribed. When the mp3's tags are viewed through the mp3 Tag Studio GUI, the C and T suffixes do not show, but certain non-Latin characters show up improperly.

Edited by transitionality on July 12 2008,03:45

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Posted: July 12 2008,17:49

This sounds like you are using an older version of the shell extension. Please disable the shell extension, and then enable it again, logged in as administrator, and it should be replaced with the most recent version.

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Posted: July 13 2008,08:39

Will try doing as you instructed. However, note that I uninstalled the previous version of mp3 Tag Studio before installing the latest version. Also, note that the problem is not limited to the shell extension. Certain non-Latin characters show up improperly when viewed through the GUI (Browse/Edit tags & flags tab).

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Posted: Sep. 18 2008,12:36

Hi Magnus,
My beta version of MP3 tag popped up as expired when I used it today. I downloaded the Upgrade to the new(?) beta version and tried to install over the top - but it asked me for a password before I could over-write the .dll file.
Anyway - then I uninstalled my version & downloaded & installed the full beta version - and got the same "expired" message!
Maybe there hasn't been a new beta version and it's just expired? I didn't check what version I had before.
Anyway I've since registered seeing as I'm very happy with mp3Tag & I just downloaded the 3.05 version - so I'm all set. But just thought I'd let you know.
Cheers
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Posted: Sep. 18 2008,16:42

Yes, sorry about this problem, I'm aware of it and a new update with extended expiry time will be uploaded this weekend. Thanks for the notice anyway.

And thanks for registering!

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Posted: Oct. 26 2009,21:45

Bug: Loading saved "Filter presets" do not save/restore the values in the "Tag contents" tab.

For instance, I create a preset with:
Filter tag contents, Artist, Containing: "foo"
I create a second preset with Filter tag contents unchecked

Swapping the "Filter preset" combo box back and forth between the two does not result in the "Tag contents" panel changing values.

This is as opposed to, for instance, the "Tag properties" panel which, when different presets are changed in the combo box, you can see the values update immediately.

I am using version 3.5 (beta 21)

Edited by deccles on Oct. 26 2009,21:46

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Posted: Nov. 19 2009,23:43

I just tried it, and it worked fine for me? Which presets are you trying to switch between?

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Posted: Dec. 04 2009,21:57

This is one long beta period, Magnus!

"After an all too long wait (sorry about that), here is finally the
first beta of Mp3/Tag Studio 3.5!"

That's the introduction e-mail I got ... May 2004! Love it.

Now, I have just installed the latest beta on my Windows 7 x64 machine.

<license related information removed>

Have a great weekend.

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Posted: Dec. 08 2009,01:14

Hehe, yeah, it got a little longer than I first expected.

But hey, if Google can do it, so can I.

Thanks for the bug report too.

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Posted: Dec. 17 2009,16:53

Where can we find info on the latest beta? The last info is several versions old.

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Posted: Jan. 13 2010,13:52

Anybody home?

Edited by 3Z Duzzit on Jan. 13 2010,13:53

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The latest betas only add extensions of the beta period. You can also find this information in the readme file included with the download.

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Posted: June 05 2010,01:58

Just ran into a problem with 3.5 Beta 20, upgraded to 21 and still have it. I have several mp3's with what I will guess are non-ascii characters. It seems to be titles or artists fields that have the
single quote "'" character in them.

The character shows fine in Windows Explorer, but in mp3tagstudio it shows as a "?" character and then is unable to open the tag.

Any suggestions?

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Posted: June 05 2010,03:41

Yes, Mp3/Tag Studio does not support Unicode characters in file names, sorry about that.

If you rename the files in Windows Explorer first, they will work just fine afterwards (oh, and the normal single quote is not such an illegal character, so it must be some special kind of Unicode single quote, please just rename it to a normal single quote and it will work just fine).

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Posted: June 05 2010,04:43

That's all I was looking for! I'll give that a try. I can run a file renamer over it first and see if that takes care of it.

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Hi, I am brand new to this version of the mp3 tag, I used the previous version and love it!

I am having a lot of trouble witht he "new" interface. My sole purpose with the software is to change/tweak the "artist" tag (to affect the order they play on my mp3 player). I don't see how to utilize that function on the new version. Can someone please point me in the right direction??

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Posted: April 27 2011,14:02

Which "new version" is that? Depending on how you want to tweak it, you can use several different tools inside Mp3/Tag Studio for this. To do it manually, use the browse tool.

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Posted: Mar. 13 2012,22:29

There seems to be a bug on Win7 64-bit. When I click on the "Help" button, system says it cannot open the help file.

Can you please fix this, because without help, I cannot correctly set up application's options.

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Posted: Mar. 18 2012,23:39

Please see the following, about the help file:

http://www.magnusbrading.com/cgi-bin....;t=3622

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Posted: Dec. 23 2012,13:14

Hi...

been an user of your software for long time...needless to say its great...

One thing that was missing in 3.05 for me was an option to browse network, and upon installing 3.5b22 I found that its finally there...but it doesn't work

I get IO error ‚123

I'm running W7 HP 64bit

can you look into it?

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Edited by glisoni on Dec. 23 2012,13:18

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Posted: Mar. 19 2021,23:12

This is hands down the best MP3 Tag software I ever used. Makes me sad to see that it's abandonware now and that the forums are full of spam. Thank you Magnus für creating this excellent piece of software and maintaining it for a long time - and best of luck in your endeavours, whatever they may be now.

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