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nwboater

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Problems With Tagging From Client
« on: May 12, 2012, 11:30:09 am »

I'm doing a bunch of tagging of our classical music from my desktop Client mostly adding Composer and changing the Genre fields. I keep getting occasional random disappearing tags that I have just entered. They are mostly in the Composer Field. It seems worse for Compilation albums where there are many Composers and I spend quite a bit of time doing the entries, including some time researching in Firefox. I'll enter several Composers, go away briefly to Firefox and when I come back some are gone. But I have seen this happen without looking away from MC. In fact I've been looking at the screen when all of a sudden my just entered tag disappears.

It seems much more reliable if I go to File, Library, Sync Changes With Library Server. At least once the Album is fully tagged. Before doing the Sync command I could have an album done, go to work on another album, and when I come back to a previous one some tags might be missing that I had previously entered. In Media Network I do have Client Options, Auto Sync With Server checked.

So I'm really wondering if we should be able to do tagging work from a Client, if I'm doing something wrong, or possibly there is a bug causing this odd behavior?

Rod
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Re: Problems With Tagging From Client
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2012, 02:51:01 pm »

Bump.

Any ideas on this?

The Client I'm doing the tagging from is an old slow P4 XP machine. Could that have anything to do with it?

Thanks.

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Re: Problems With Tagging From Client
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2012, 03:11:28 pm »

Are you tagging files that have been in the library a long time, or you importing new files and tagging them right away?
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Re: Problems With Tagging From Client
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2012, 03:32:48 pm »

Are you tagging files that have been in the library a long time, or you importing new files and tagging them right away?

These are all files that have been there awhile. I'm trying to clean up my Classical Music Tagging.

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Re: Problems With Tagging From Client
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2012, 03:39:08 pm »

Is it possible you're only losing a change that hasn't been committed yet?

In other words, you have an edit box open with a few composers entered, and you leave it open for a minute while you search the internet?
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Re: Problems With Tagging From Client
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2012, 05:39:41 pm »

Is it possible you're only losing a change that hasn't been committed yet?

In other words, you have an edit box open with a few composers entered, and you leave it open for a minute while you search the internet?

By "Committed" if you mean that they have not yet been synced with the Server that is correct. As I mentioned before once I go to File, Library, sync Changes With Server they seem to stick. But it's very frustrating when working with a multi composer compilation album to enter a few composers and then after a short period of time see that one of two of them are no longer there.

I guess if I did a Sync Changes after every single entry it would be okay, but that would be a very cumbersome, time consuming process.

Thanks again Matt for working on this.

Rod
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