Many thanks Scot for taking the time. Here are the results of my experiments:
1. A .WAV file is imported into an empty MC 12 library. The file doesn’t contain any attributes (no tag). Its file name contain some national characters (small case Swedish “a” with a ring over it and “o” with 2 dots over it). The file name starts with track number followed by space-dash-space. In MC the file automatically gets a name that equals file name. Swedish characters are ok. If this forum does right then the file name and MC name is:
10 - Hanna från Arlöv.flacThe rest of MC fields are blank.
2. Then I edit Name, Artist, Album, Genre, Track#, and Date in MC. Album contains another Swedish character (an “a” with 2 dots over it). The album name is:
Livet är en festI do a “Rename file from fields” specifying [Artist]/[Album] as directory and [Track#] – [Name] as file name. This works ok.
3. Still in MC 12 I convert file format to FLAC and analyze audio to get replay gain.
4. Before adding a cover image I specify image location in MC options to “Next to file [Artist] – [Album]” and select “Store images in tags also”. Then I add an image to the file. The image is shown correctly in MC and MC copies it both to the directory and to the tag. Very good.
5. At last I do “Update tags from library”. Then I check the file using a Hexplorer utility (a hex dump tool). Everything except YEAR appears to be ok in file tag. Name, Artist, Album, Genre, and Track# are as specified in MC including the Swedish characters. Even the cover image is there. However the YEAR attribute is wrong, instead of saying 1974/01/01 it says 1899/12/30.
6. Now I import the file into a new and empty MC 12 library. The results are not correct:
6.1 Name is now “[TRACKNUMBER] – [TITLE]” instead of [TITLE]
6.2 Album is empty instead of [ALBUM]
6.3 Date is empty instead of [YEAR], which would be wrong too.
7. Artist, Genre, and Track# is ok.
8. Even the cover image is loaded from FLAC file correctly – very good!
9. Then, still in MC 12, I “remove cover image” and “update tags from library”. This updates FLAC file attributes to those shown by MC, i.e. to wrong values but it doesn’t remove the image from the file. The image disappears from MC but the next time I import the same file (into a new empty library) I get the image again.
Thanks/Mikael