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[Bluesman]

I am wondering why MC writes it's version number into the comments field of the ID3V2 tag, and is there some way to stop this?
I have not encoded any of my files with MC , so I am wondering if this happens just by playing them via MC?
These version numbers are not visible in MC but in some tag editors, ie Tagscanner shows them but Tag&Rename  doesn't.

Anyone noticed this? And maybe there's an option I haven't yet found to turn this off? Any ideas please

Media Center Registered 11.0.312 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 11\

Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 1196 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 506 MB, Free - 202 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2900.2713 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.050702-1513) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2900.2620 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.050225-1820) / wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0002) , ASPI for Win32         DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.71 (0002)

Ripping /   Drive D:   Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: No /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: No /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No 

Burning /  Drive D: TOSHIBA  DVD-ROM SD-R6012   Addr: 1:0:0  Speed:8  MaxSpeed:16  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: No /  Write CD-Text: Yes
  Use playback settings: Yes /  Normalization: None

[JimH]

There's no way to change this and it's harmless.  It happens when tags are updated.

[Bluesman]

ok. it may be harmless but why is it necessary to have it in there?
What type of tag is it then?
In some editors all I can see is the version number and not the information I have placed there.

[GHammer]

Yeah, I'm not a fan of that either. There are other places to add info besides a comment tag.

Try this on one or two files.

Go to Tools-Options-Library
Go down the list of fields to Comment
Choose Edit
Unselect "Store in file tags (when possible)"

This will prevent you from saving comment edits to your files, but also should stop that behavior.

Or it may not. I have stopped MC from tagging my files at all because of this and other items that get written into the comment field.

[KingSparta]

I think there can be like 256 comments, and some taggers\programs do not work correctly if there is more than one comment.

[JimH]

It isn't going to change.