How to edit meta data

[chinni]

Some how some of album files has corrupt meta data and I need to edit. It is taking lot of time to edit using "edit ID". Is there any other tool that I can use to edit meta data to fix the problems?

Is it possible to open flac files using dbpoweramp and fix meta data?

[Spoon]

Re: How to edit meta data

dBpoweramp can edit flac files yes.

[chinni]

Re: How to edit meta data

dBpoweramp can edit flac files yes.

There is no file menu to open album that has flac files. It only has option to open cd roms. Appreciate help.

[chinni]

Re: How to edit meta data

It would help to know any apis(if possible Java or XML) to manipulate meta data as well. I need to replace comma with space and semicolon

[garym]

Re: How to edit meta data

It would help to know any apis(if possible Java or XML) to manipulate meta data as well. I need to replace comma with space and semicolon

An "ACTION" in mp3tag can easily automate this in a batch way. Be careful though. If trying to do multi field values, in mp3tag replace comma with "\\" rather than ;
I suspect you can also automate with dbpa batch converter, converting to ID TAG UPDATE DSP and setting correct info in the manipulate tab.

[chinni]

Re: How to edit meta data

An "ACTION" in mp3tag can easily automate this in a batch way. Be careful though. If trying to do multi field values, in mp3tag replace comma with "\\" rather than ;
I suspect you can also automate with dbpa batch converter, converting to ID TAG UPDATE DSP and setting correct info in the manipulate tab.

Thanks. I installed mp3tag and used Actions->Action(Quick)
Then entered
Field: artist
Original: ,
Replace : space semicolon
It worked perfect. You mentioned to be careful to not use semicolon. Do I expect any problems with this?

[garym]

Re: How to edit meta data

Thanks. I installed mp3tag and used Tools->Action
Then entered
Field: artist
Original: ,
Replace : space semicolon
It worked perfect. You mentioned to be careful to not use semicolon. Do I expect any problems with this?

Test the files in the player of your choice. Does artist show up with multiple values or with a single value with a ;
Even better, In mp3tag, select a file and right click. Then choose extended tags. If you have true multiple artist fields, then you will see TWO artist fields with each having a single artist listed.

[chinni]

Re: How to edit meta data

Test the files in the player of your choice. Does artist show up with multiple values or with a single value with a ;
Even better, In mp3tag, select a file and right click. Then choose extended tags. If you have true multiple artist fields, then you will see TWO artist fields with each having a single artist listed.

Hi Garym,
I ripped from dbpoweramp by entering following values for 6 songs.
1. Kishore Kumar; semi space

2. Kishore Kumar;semi nospace
3 Kishore Kumar\ slash space
4.Kishore Kumar\slash nospace
5.Kishore Kumar\\ double space
6.Kishore Kumar\\double nospace
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From 2 to 6, I see single value for artist when I looked at extended tag from mp3tag. However for the first test case, I found the following.
Result from extended tag
artist:Kishore Kumar
artist:semi space

On the left-side of value for Artist in mp3tag
Kishore Kumar\\semi space

When I edit using ID tag from dbpoweramp the value is still , Kishore Kumar; semi space.

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I am more confused now. What is really extended tags. Why the value is same when I look in edit ID tag, but the value is // when I look in mp3tag and also two separate artists when I look in extended tag. I guess that is why you said to change to //. Appreciate for any explanation.

[chinni]

Re: How to edit meta data

Spoon, In another thread you mentioned the following
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It is format & tag dependant, dbpoweramp standardizes on:

artist1; artist2

and behind the scenes it will convert to the right format for the tag.
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Does it mean behind scenes , it will convert the "; space" to "\\" and extended tag shows two separate artists? Do you still want me to stick to ";space" if change the values using mp3tag?

Appreciate for best way. I want do it right for good and don't worry about these.

[dbfan]

Re: How to edit meta data

MP3tag might do things differently to dBpoweramp, so we can only speak for dBpoweramp.

[mville]

Re: How to edit meta data

I am more confused now. What is really extended tags. Why the value is same when I look in edit ID tag, but the value is // when I look in mp3tag and also two separate artists when I look in extended tag. I guess that is why you said to change to //. Appreciate for any explanation.

Both programs display multi-value tags differently.

For flac files, dBpoweramp separates multi-value tags with a semi colon and a space (; ) and MP3Tag, by default, separates mutli-value tags with 2 back slashes (\\).

For example, using the Composer tag, in dBpoweramp you will see:
John Lennon; Paul McCartney

and in MP3Tag you will see:
John Lennon\\Paul McCartney.

When editing in dBpoweramp continue to separate with a semi colon and a space and MP3Tag continue to separate with the 2 back slashes and you should be fine.

Extended tags in MP3Tag is just another way of viewing the tags except it separates out the multi-value tags, i.e. John Lennon\\Paul McCartney is displayed as:

Composer John Lennon
Composer Paul McCartney

Please note the above refers to flac files only, which uses vorbis comments to store its tags.

[garym]

Re: How to edit meta data

Thanks mville for the clear examples! chinni, simply continue ripping properly in dbpa (with the "; " between multi values) and everything will be perfect. The underlying tags are all the same, it is just that the interfaces (mp3tag, dbpa, etc.) are using different symbols ("\\" vs "; ") to translate certain things so that the tags are correct, as mville's examples clearly show.

[chinni]

Re: How to edit meta data

miville, garyam, Thanks for reply with explanation. I will stick to use "; " for any albums that I will rip from now onwards.

However, I alreay have more than 1500 songs ripped with artist having multiple values with ",". I have very few with "&" for multi values. I don't want to rerip again since it can takes hundreds of hours. I tried in mp3tag
replace "," with "//" as given here.

Kalyani Koduri,Sravanthi

When I see extended tag, I see as one artist having value of Kalyani Koduri//Sravanthi . How do I fix this? One time it seems it worked to see two separate name/value for artists. I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

If possible, I want to stick to dbpoweramp suite. It does not look like these allow to globally replace for all the songs containing in a folder.

Whatever I do, unless I see two name/value pairs for artists in extended tag, the values are not correct right? Appreciate how to fix all the mess.

[chinni]

Re: How to edit meta data

dBpoweramp can edit flac files yes.

Spoon, You said dbpoweramp can edit flac files. I see only option to select cd. There is no file menu to read flac files from hard disk. Could you please explain how you can open to edit flac fiels from dbpoweramp? Let me know if there is any batch way to replace meta data.

[Spoon]

Re: How to edit meta data

Open Windows explorer, select one flac file >> Edit ID Tags

later you can select all the flac files of an album (but no jpg) and do the same to edit all the metadata for the album.