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syndromeofadown:
When audio is purchased from itunes there is data stored in the file including the purchaser's name and email.
I don't like this. There is a fairly simple way to strip the ALL data/tags, then add back the fields that are actually wanted. This is annoying though. Maybe JRiver could consider a new feature to strip unnecessary fields from audio files for the sake of privacy and convenience. Aside from itunes sneaky tactics I have noticed a plethora of other useless fields throughout my library that I would also be happy to get rid of.

Please consider.
Thanks.

~OHM~:
I use a free app called MP3Tag it's easy to use and works flawlessly!

syndromeofadown:

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It doesn't, and it can't,  remove all itune's personal data from m4a, and it doesn't have an option to clean all the junk fields out.

syndromeofadown:
"Remove Tags" in MC appears to get rid of the itunes tags, but also all wanted tags at the same time. I have tried many tagging programs and in them "Remove Tags" doesn't actually remove all of the tags.

Bill Kearney:
I don't have any m4a files to test it (as I despise Apple, entirely) but MC's tag editor is pretty robust.  You can blanket-edit whole ranges of tracks with it.  Do the tags in question show up in a columnar view in MC?  If so, some clever filtering to isolate just the m4a files that have a value in the field would narrow the list.  Then use the tag editor to delete the contents of that tag.

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