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imoone

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importing custom tags after reinstall?
« on: November 18, 2003, 07:03:43 pm »

Hi guys,

I got a big problem. Recently I modified my mp3 tags with custom tags like "orig. composer", different dates and some others. Lately I had to reinstall my system and therefore also media center. I saved all the custom tags in the mp3 file. but now I want to import them, but MC does not show these fields. I don't know the names either.

how can I get the fields back including the name of the field and the content?

Thx.
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Re:importing custom tags after reinstall?
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2003, 07:22:58 pm »

maybe look in the tags window for the field names to see if they are in there.

and add the fields and then re-import
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Re:importing custom tags after reinstall?
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2003, 08:08:58 pm »

you mean the "tag info" windows? no, they are not there and also the content is not listed in there. but thanks for your support.

if I put my mouse above the mp3 in the explorer i get a info-field with info like this:



so, the content is there. but it seems, that all the custom fields were stored in Comment-Fields.

I tried different applications to get field names or any other "encoded" field names inside of the Comment. but there doesn't seem to be any field name...

any ideas?
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Re:importing custom tags after reinstall?
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2003, 08:30:27 pm »

you need to add the fields as they were created in mc before then re-import.

also:

you can also access the comment fields thru a good tag editor like dr tag it allows you to see more than one comment tag.


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Re:importing custom tags after reinstall?
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2003, 07:53:02 am »

Did you back up your library?  You should do this regularly.  I do it before implementing new builds of MC, and as these are quite often I always have a fairly recent back up of my MC library.  If possible keep the back up on a separate drive or at least a separate partition from your system drive.
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Re:importing custom tags after reinstall?
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2003, 09:15:09 am »

@KingSparta:

Thank you very much. it worked. Dr Tag shows also the Tag names, so I could create the fields in MC.

@JLee:

Perhaps you're right ;) Thx alot. I will do that. But I forgot it last time. Bad fault. I'll do it regularly now.
Are the custom fields also backed up and will be restored after a reinstall?
Well, I'll try.

Thx all
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