Re: Composer tags - semi colon separator vs forward slash
Thanks again to all who has given me advice.
Did a batch job using the mp3tag utility that Gary suggested.
Was able to modify the multiple composer and artist metadata from "; " to "/ " on all tracks.
Tried it on 10 albums first to test.
Was able to then do all approx 50000 tracks at once in two stages.
First run for the composer modify and second run for the artist.
This worked faster than I thought when modifying files on a 4TB USB drive.
I then tried to do the same with the NAS.
The NAS seems to be ok with only 1 folder at a time for some reason instead of being able to do the all the folders at once.
ie my FLAC files are on the drive as:
FLAC-Lossless (then under that as individual Artist Names with multiple albums for each artist )
eg
AC/DC
Aerosmith
Al Kooper
etc etc
So with the USB drive I can just use the FLAC-Lossless directory and do all the tracks for all artists at once
But cannot do the with the NAS. Have to do each artist folder 1 at a time.
But its progress and better than having to change each track manually one at a time.
Hopefully the "/ " was the correct separator tag.
Should I do this for ALAC as well after I am happy with the FLAC changes or are ALAC and LAME not that fussy with "; " versus "/ "
as a separator?
Now running all the music files on the USB drive through FLAC Tester after modifying.
Thanks again to all who has given me advice.
Did a batch job using the mp3tag utility that Gary suggested.
Was able to modify the multiple composer and artist metadata from "; " to "/ " on all tracks.
Tried it on 10 albums first to test.
Was able to then do all approx 50000 tracks at once in two stages.
First run for the composer modify and second run for the artist.
This worked faster than I thought when modifying files on a 4TB USB drive.
I then tried to do the same with the NAS.
The NAS seems to be ok with only 1 folder at a time for some reason instead of being able to do the all the folders at once.
ie my FLAC files are on the drive as:
FLAC-Lossless (then under that as individual Artist Names with multiple albums for each artist )
eg
AC/DC
Aerosmith
Al Kooper
etc etc
So with the USB drive I can just use the FLAC-Lossless directory and do all the tracks for all artists at once
But cannot do the with the NAS. Have to do each artist folder 1 at a time.
But its progress and better than having to change each track manually one at a time.
Hopefully the "/ " was the correct separator tag.
Should I do this for ALAC as well after I am happy with the FLAC changes or are ALAC and LAME not that fussy with "; " versus "/ "
as a separator?
Now running all the music files on the USB drive through FLAC Tester after modifying.
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