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calberga
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Posted: Dec. 04 2007,04:06

I can't pin down what is doing it, but I have just discovered that some (at least one) .jpg file has been corrupted in some way.  I have been running Mass set Tags, Tag from file name, and Name from tags on some directories, without filtering.  I just did a Name from tags, and saw, in the preview, "Tommy Peoples Cover.jpg" -> "0.mp3".  I canceled, but the file (now still with a type of .jpg) cannot be read by several graphic programs, and one of them tries to play it as an audio file.  (At least the play fails.)

What have I done, and is there any way to undo it?

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Posted: Dec. 06 2007,17:07

If you have explicitly chosen to tag the file (e.g. with the shell extension), this can happen. It should be fixed by right-clicking it in the browse tool and choosing to remove all tag data from it.

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Posted: Dec. 06 2007,22:04

This wasn't in the shell extension, but in either a "Mass tag setting" or "Tag from filename".  

There actually only seem to be three files that this happened to, and even odder, in a "create list" these three .jpg files show up, with blank values for the tags being listed!

I think I have backups of the original files, and will try to recover them and see what else (that I can detect) is strange about them.
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Posted: Dec. 08 2007,16:44

Ok, strange. But didn't the "remove tags" trick fix them? (and I mean remove the tags completely, not set all the fields to blank)

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Posted: Dec. 15 2007,10:59

Quote (Magnus Brading @ Dec. 08 2007,16:44)
Ok, strange. But didn't the "remove tags" trick fix them? (and I mean remove the tags completely, not set all the fields to blank)

Why not have a user preference to make MP3/Tag Studio ignore all non-MP3 files? I think that would solve the problem.

Again, the four or five other tagging programs I've evaluated -- even simplistic ones like iTunes -- automatically ignore non-MP3 files.

Would it be that hard to implement?
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Posted: Dec. 15 2007,13:36

You can do that, just use "filtering" and specify the file type wanted.  The strangeness here is that (so far) all but three of my .jpg files ARE ignored (actually, the log tells me that they aren't file that have tags).  Which means that those three .jpg files have some configuration of data/header (I have no idea what the inside of a .jpg file looks like) that mimics that of an .mp3 file.
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