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Album gain and peak tags did not write to most files in a batch of several thousand files.
Tried to run the Replaygain utility codec on about 8,100 mp3 files that I had previously created using DMC. Selected both track and album replaygain, album gain selected to key on album ID tag. I accessed the replaygain utility codec by launching Batch Converter, then selected the folder containing all the files, then hit Convert, then selected the Replaygain utility codec and set its options, then hit Convert. Ran about 4 hours (about 140x encoding speed), saw the utility codec crunch through two files at a time (one per cpu) per the Replaygain utility codec status popup. I also monitored via Task Manager - I saw that MusicConverter.exe, DMCFileSelector.exe.and two instances of CoreConverter.exe (on per cpu) were running, used close to 100% cpu, had several GBs of unused physical memory and several TBs of unused disk space. DMC seemed to work through the files alphabetically by file name. When DMC was done, I got a box with a finished button.
Summary - no indication that anything was not working fine.
However, everything was not fine. All track replaygain tags were written (both peak and gain tag fields), but only 3012 of the 8100 tracks have album replaygain tags. In most cases when a replaygain_album_gain tag was written, either all tracks had an album gain tag written and written with the same value, or no album gain tag was written to any of the album tracks. In a small number of cases when an album gain was written, only one or two tracks had an album gain tag written and the rest of the tracks had no album gain tag. In all cases where there was no album gain tag written, there was also no value written in the replaygain_album_peak tag field.
I had duplicate copies of all files in a back-up folder. I used Foobar2000 to write album and track replaygain tags. Everything worked. All tags appear to be written correctly using Foobar.
I spent a great deal of time ensuring I had unique file names and good tags, especially album tags, before doing any of this Foobar result tells me nothing is wrong with my files, album ID tags, computer resources, or anything else outside of DMC.
I am running Vista SP3, 3GB physical memory, have several TB of disc space. I am using all the latest reference release of DMC and utility codecs and DSP effects. Tried all of the above with latest beta versions and using debug mode and this time only 80 of the tracks had album peak or gain tags, but all files had track peak and gain tags. Not sure how many debug files there are or where to find them all, but two .txt files popped up at the beginning of running the run for what appears to be for the processing of the first two files that were run.
I cannot detect any pattern or logic why so many files did not receive album gain or peak tags, or why a different run with the exact files and exact DMC settings resulted in a different number of files with tag errors.
Please advise. Glad to send in any debug files - just tell when where to send them and where to find them on my computer.
Tried to run the Replaygain utility codec on about 8,100 mp3 files that I had previously created using DMC. Selected both track and album replaygain, album gain selected to key on album ID tag. I accessed the replaygain utility codec by launching Batch Converter, then selected the folder containing all the files, then hit Convert, then selected the Replaygain utility codec and set its options, then hit Convert. Ran about 4 hours (about 140x encoding speed), saw the utility codec crunch through two files at a time (one per cpu) per the Replaygain utility codec status popup. I also monitored via Task Manager - I saw that MusicConverter.exe, DMCFileSelector.exe.and two instances of CoreConverter.exe (on per cpu) were running, used close to 100% cpu, had several GBs of unused physical memory and several TBs of unused disk space. DMC seemed to work through the files alphabetically by file name. When DMC was done, I got a box with a finished button.
Summary - no indication that anything was not working fine.
However, everything was not fine. All track replaygain tags were written (both peak and gain tag fields), but only 3012 of the 8100 tracks have album replaygain tags. In most cases when a replaygain_album_gain tag was written, either all tracks had an album gain tag written and written with the same value, or no album gain tag was written to any of the album tracks. In a small number of cases when an album gain was written, only one or two tracks had an album gain tag written and the rest of the tracks had no album gain tag. In all cases where there was no album gain tag written, there was also no value written in the replaygain_album_peak tag field.
I had duplicate copies of all files in a back-up folder. I used Foobar2000 to write album and track replaygain tags. Everything worked. All tags appear to be written correctly using Foobar.
I spent a great deal of time ensuring I had unique file names and good tags, especially album tags, before doing any of this Foobar result tells me nothing is wrong with my files, album ID tags, computer resources, or anything else outside of DMC.
I am running Vista SP3, 3GB physical memory, have several TB of disc space. I am using all the latest reference release of DMC and utility codecs and DSP effects. Tried all of the above with latest beta versions and using debug mode and this time only 80 of the tracks had album peak or gain tags, but all files had track peak and gain tags. Not sure how many debug files there are or where to find them all, but two .txt files popped up at the beginning of running the run for what appears to be for the processing of the first two files that were run.
I cannot detect any pattern or logic why so many files did not receive album gain or peak tags, or why a different run with the exact files and exact DMC settings resulted in a different number of files with tag errors.
Please advise. Glad to send in any debug files - just tell when where to send them and where to find them on my computer.
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