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Brovig

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Duplication of tag entry
« on: December 17, 2013, 04:12:38 pm »
I'll ask this again as I got no joy last time:

I converted a bunch of songs from the source ALAC to MP3 (VBR high) and I notice that while the Album Artist tag in the original is <A.N. Other>, in the MP3 file it shows up in all cases as <A.N. Other; A.N. Other>.

In other words it gets duplicated with a semicolon separator.

What can I do to avoid that?

I'm using MC19.0.67 under Win7-64.
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MrC

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Re: Duplication of tag entry
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2013, 06:25:25 pm »
Can you make a sample ALAC available so someone can duplicate the problem?
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Re: Duplication of tag entry
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2013, 06:30:53 pm »
Quote from: MrC on December 17, 2013, 06:25:25 pm
Can you make a sample ALAC available so someone can duplicate the problem?
Sure. How should I submit it to you? I could use Dropbox.
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Matt

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Re: Duplication of tag entry
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2013, 06:32:14 pm »
Quote from: Brovig on December 17, 2013, 06:30:53 pm
Sure. How should I submit it to you? I could use Dropbox.

Please email a link to yaobing (at) jriver [dot] com.

Thanks.
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Re: Duplication of tag entry
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2013, 06:44:42 pm »
Email and Dropbox notification has been sent. Thank you!
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Yaobing

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Re: Duplication of tag entry
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2013, 08:53:50 pm »
Thanks for the samples. 

I will take a closer look tomorrow.  Right now I do not see anything wrong with the mp3 files you provided.  MC shows Album Artist as "The Beatles" in the Action Window. I also examined them using MediaInfo and the tags look normal in that too.  I will try a conversion and also check what is in the tag fields in debugger tomorrow.
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Yaobing Deng, JRiver Media Center

Brovig

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Re: Duplication of tag entry
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2013, 09:05:40 pm »
I use the tag editor built into DBpoweramp as my de facto editor and that's where I see the duplicate. Perhaps it doesn't show up in other players or editors?

Later:
I have viewed the MP3 files in another tag editor (MP3Tag) and it shows two identical Album Artist entries rather than duplicate values for one field entry as DBpoweramp does.
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Yaobing

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Re: Duplication of tag entry
« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2013, 03:22:53 pm »
We write Album Artist tag in two places for maximum compatibility - TPE2 and TXXX Album Artist.

I do not know how dBpoweramp deals with these tags, but I guess it reads both and show both.  I believe they should just use one value.

So there is really no issue here.
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Brovig

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Re: Duplication of tag entry
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2013, 06:31:21 pm »
Ok. My fear was that the double entry would cause problems when imported into other applications, such as iTunes. But rather than duplicate entry in one field, as dBPa implies, it's more a case of the Field itself being duplicated which I suspect will not cause a problem.

Thank you kindly for looking into this.
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