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[Mike]

Why are empty tag fields being written?

With ogg for example:

1. choose an ogg file with absolutely no tag data attached to it.

2. view its properties in MJ. The track and year fields are displayed as '0' and all others are blank.

3. edit any single field (title in my example), and click 'save'.

4. MJ writes the following to the file:
title=mytitle
artist=
album=
description=
genre=
date=0
tracknumber=0
mjmetadata=

Shouldn't MJ only write the title="mytitle" field and nothing else? MJ's metadata tag is full of empty fields also.

And the only real MJ-specific fields in the mjmetadeta tag are imagefile="" (because MJ has it's own cd cover art database) and rating="". All the custom fields could just be written as a regular ogg tags when they are needed (not empty), albumartist="" I assume is for various artist albums and could also be written as a regular tag when needed.

As for replay gain storage, why doesn't MJ stick to the standard that is outlined on replaygain.org?

Thanks, Mike