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[RhinoBanga]

My MP3 files has track numbers and total (album) track numbers, e.g.:

Artist: Abba
Album: Gold
Title: Dancing Queen
Track: 01/19


These were set using other tagging tools, e.g. Helium2/Tag & Rename/etc.


When I use MC to edit a track with this format it removes the total album track number, for example the above becomes:

Artist: Abba
Album: Gold
Title: Dancing Queen
Track: 1

[Matt]

We always save track numbers as a single digit.

We'll see if it's not too hard to have the MP3 plugin retain the album count when it exists.  Feel free to remind us.

[Galley]

Yes, this needs to be looked at.  I prefer the 0x/xx method.

[RhinoBanga]

What's frightening is that the track number is always written even if you don't touch the track number field, e.g setting a rating which is so easy to do now.   I have just checked my library and about 20% of my tracks (around 1000) have had their tags modified.

Matt, please let us know when this issue is fixed.   MC is unusable for tagging for me while this bug remains.

[JimH]

Rhino,
While we may fix it, it isn't a bug.  I believe we're following the standard.  Feel free to prove me wrong.

Jim

[jleerigby]

I think Jim is saying that the standard way to write Track # is a single digit therefore that's what get's written to the track # tag when you change any of the tag data in MC.

[RhinoBanga]

I believe we're following the standard

Why is MC changing the track number field when I am changing, say, a rating?   Don't you feel that preserving user's existing unchanged tags is important?

Feel free to prove me wrong.

According to http://www.id3.org/frames.html it says:

 Track number/Position in set

Is one of the ID3v2 fields.   Will that do?

[jleerigby]

That doesn't actually say that the standard is to include both the track # AND the position in set.  The '/' could equally mean track # OR position in set which is what they probably mean for

Original album/movie/show title

[RhinoBanga]

Here's the spec:

http://www.id3.org/id3v2.3.0.txt

TRCK
   The 'Track number/Position in set' frame is a numeric string
   containing the order number of the audio-file on its original
   recording. This may be extended with a "/" character and a numeric
   string containing the total numer of tracks/elements on the original
   recording. E.g. "4/9".


Looks like MC doesn't follow the standard.

[JimH]

We'll take a look when we get a chance.