I have now more than 800 albums on my MC.
When I tried to correct some Tags, in the case to put Pavarotti instead Luciano Pavarotti, something happened and all my albums now are Pavarotti's.
All the work I have done seems to be gone.
Is there a way to go back to the previous Tags? I hope so and also hope that someone can help in a way that I will understand.
Best regards
Hi, Urbanito.
Scolex's advice is valid. It will restore the MC database to a previous setting. You might want to do an additional step to get the contents of the music files back.
Explanation: Your tag values are stored in two places: in the music files themselves and in the MC database. The contents of those two locations may or may not be the same depending on several settings in MC.
1. On the edit menu, the "Update Tags when file info changes" command.
2. In the Manage Library fields dialog, each field has a checkbox setting "save in file tags when possible".
(From the Tools menu, the Options command and the Library & folders page, click on Manage library fields.)
3. In the General page of the Tools/Options dialog, the "Update tags when file info changes" checkbox.
Action for you:
- Turn off the setting in 1. above.
- Then follow scolex's advice.
- Turn on the setting in 2. above for the Artist field.
- Select all your files and Right-click on them. In the menu that appears, select "Library Tools" and then "Update Tags from library".
This will ensure that the correct Artist tags are present in your files as well as in the MC database.
Good luck.
Bill