Can Someone Help Please - Metadata!

[katywu]

Re: Can Someone Help Please - Metadata!

Sent PM, thanks

[Spoon]

Re: Can Someone Help Please - Metadata!

The file is not tagged correctly, internally the tag is stored as:

Style=MQ; Lossless

I took the file, right click >> Edit ID tags >> removed the Style tag, clicked ok. Then right click >> edit id tags, added a Style tag, and set the value to 'MQ; Lossless', and internally it is written as:

Style=MQ
Style=Lossless

[mville]

Re: Can Someone Help Please - Metadata!

The file is not tagged correctly, internally the tag is stored as:

Style=MQ; Lossless

I took the file, right click >> Edit ID tags >> removed the Style tag, clicked ok. Then right click >> edit id tags, added a Style tag, and set the value to 'MQ; Lossless', and internally it is written as:

Style=MQ
Style=Lossless

So, the only way to set multi-value tag values is to use the Edit ID-Tag context menu option only and not the ID Tag Update utility codec?

[Spoon]

Re: Can Someone Help Please - Metadata!

I do not think ID Tag update would do this no.

[katywu]

Re: Can Someone Help Please - Metadata!

Thanks for identifying the problem.......is this a limitation with the ID Tag Update utility or is something you could incorporate into a future release?

Or do you have any other ideas how I can automate the tag update on a large collection of albums, the batch convertor would have been ideal for this!

[Spoon]

Re: Can Someone Help Please - Metadata!

ID Tag Update preserves the fields as far as multiple assignments are concerned.

If you install PerfectTUNES, it can do this by changing one item as it lists all tags by a single type, it is a very powerful program...change them to MQ1; Lossless1 then MQ; Lossless

[katywu]

Re: Can Someone Help Please - Metadata!

I can see how I get PerfectTUNES to read all the files in a directory but how do you go about automating the changing of the tags from there? Sorry not used the ID side of this program before

[katywu]

Re: Can Someone Help Please - Metadata!

Worked it out

It works well with PerfectTUNES on both FLAC and WAV files. Thanks for getting to the bottom of it.

Looks like I've got a new solution for tagging and a bit of work to do!

[Spoon]

Re: Can Someone Help Please - Metadata!

To clarify you would go ID Tags >> Lists and Recommendations >> select Styles

then you can change every single file with this style set in one action.