Batch Converter for RG tags - just used it and some files did not get tagged...

[Max Dread]

Hi

I've just finished running a large random collection of FLACs and Mp3s through the Batch Converter -> RG Codec. Most of the files went through fine. A few didn't, but that's because the parent folders I used were too long and it pushed the everything over the 256 character limit. Lesson learnt!

However, there are some others that I cannot figure out why they've gone wrong. Some have no RG tags. Some have no RG tags AND no genre tag.

I will try doing these again and hopefully it will fix the problem. But at the same time (and for future reference) it would be nice to know what went wrong. What would be the best way of trying to find out, or isn't there one? Is it normal for a few to go wrong when converting a large library in one go?

Thanks for the help

Max

[mville]

What do you have selected in the Albums Identified By dropdown menu? Depending on what you have selected here, determines how the RG values are calculated/applied. Either the tracks that have no RG tags do not have consistent Album tags OR are not in the same folder.

Replay Gain utility codec does not affect your Genre tags.

[Max Dread]

What do you have selected in the Albums Identified By dropdown menu? Depending on what you have selected here, determines how the RG values are calculated/applied. Either the tracks that have no RG tags do not have consistent Album tags OR are not in the same folder.

In the dropdown menu I have "Album ID Tag". I've already tagged all the files and sorted out the filenaming and folder scheme. So I can't see how it can be either of those things. Unless there's something weird going on with the tags. Is it possible for a file to have two sets of tags (different types)?

Replay Gain utility codec does not affect your Genre tags.

I know it is not meant to, but it just has for me. Only on a few files... But is has done it. I don't know if it is a bug/glitch, if there's something odd about the tags, or who knows what. But as far as I'm aware, before running everything through the RG codec all genre tags were present and correct. Since running them through the RG codec, there are some files which have not had RG applied, and of those, some no longer have a genre tag either.

Hopefully will be able to get to the bottom of it so I know if I have to put anything right in the future.

Many thanks for the reply

[Max Dread]

A bit of an apology to you there mville. I've just been through each individual messed up file and can confirm that the only ones with missing genres are the ones that are corrupted due to going over the 256 character limit. And those I don't consider a problem seeing as I know why they are messed up and how to fix it.

The others though remain a mystery. Just to confirm, they DO have genre tags, but they don't have ANY RG tags. I have double checked the album tags for them and they match the album tags of the rest of the tracks in the folder/on the album. So I don't think it is that, unless - as I mentioned above - there is some way there are different form at tags on there running concurrently. Don't even know if that's possible though...

[Max Dread]

A further, further update

I've just taken one of the problem albums which had two tracks in it on which no RG tags had been written. I removed the RG tracks (using Foobar), then used DBPA RG Codec to redo new RG tags. I wanted to try this to see whether the problem was anything to do with the large amount of files I batch converted in one go. Wrong tree I'm barking up though, because the same two tracks still didn't have RG info after doing that.

So I then removed the RG tags again, and this time I used Foobar to apply the RG tags. Bingo! So it would seem that the problem is not with the files themselves, but something that DBPA Music Converter and/or RG Codec doesn't like...

[Spoon]

if you can isolate one file which will not tag, then send to us please.

[Max Dread]

Sure, here we are:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5...zROWllxOWtOMTA

Let's see what it turns up.

Many thanks

[mville]

Sure, here we are:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5...zROWllxOWtOMTA

Let's see what it turns up.

Running Test Conversion on this file produces this error:
Error converting to Test Conversion, 'D:\MP3\Wolf Eyes - Slicer - 02 - Untitled 02.mp3' to 'D:\MP3\Wolf Eyes - Slicer - 02 - Untitled 02.IGNORE'
Error decoding mp3 data stream, is corrupt?

So, some of your files are probably corrupted.

[Max Dread]

So, some of your files are probably corrupted.

What would that mean in practical terms? That file in question does now have RG tags (because I added them using foobar) and it plays back fine too. Is that normal for a corrupted file?

[mville]

What would that mean in practical terms? That file in question does now have RG tags (because I added them using foobar) and it plays back fine too. Is that normal for a corrupted file?

Very odd indeed, I can play back the file in foobar2000, but Test Conversion gives the error. Can you try running Test Conversion on the file you uploaded, do you get any errors?

... just listened to the whole track in foobar2000 and it stops after 5.00 minutes, I believe the uploaded file is corrupted.