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Title: Interesting problem with genre tags
Post by: Crayola Boy on February 24, 2012, 02:54:50 pm

I like how the genre and artist fields are now lists even though I don't use that feature. I've already invested a lot of time tagging music a different way. But lately, I'd say over the last few weeks or so, some of my tags are changing without my knowledge. For example, Pop/Rock is changing to Pop; Rock. It's not happening on every file but I can't seem to find a cause or a pattern. Any ideas?

Title: Re: Interesting problem with genre tags
Post by: Matt on February 24, 2012, 03:47:43 pm

By spec, slash is the delimiter in ID3v2.3.  There were a couple builds where we honored this, so Pop/Rock could become a list Pop; Rock.

But then we changed to this by popular request:
17.0.83 (2/6/2012)
Changed: ID3v2 tag reading doesn't treat / as a delimiter in ID3v2.3, but instead uses NULL as the delimiter for reading and writing in ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4.

So it won't happen any longer if you manually correct any files using a list of Pop; Rock.

Title: Re: Interesting problem with genre tags
Post by: Crayola Boy on February 25, 2012, 12:42:17 am

Thanks for the update.

I have another quirk, though it's not really a problem. In my Keywords, I get a keyword listed as "eyword." I thought it was me just typing something wrong, but I also got a "oods" tag in my Moods field and a "enre" in my Genre field. Again, not really a problem, just a little odd.

Title: Re: Interesting problem with genre tags
Post by: Alex B on February 25, 2012, 06:49:47 am

Quote from: Crayola Boy on February 25, 2012, 12:42:17 am

In my Keywords, I get a keyword listed as "eyword." I thought it was me just typing something wrong, but I also got a "oods" tag in my Moods field and a "enre" in my Genre field.

Could this be caused by Windows 7 Explorer or Windows Media Player 12? The Microsoft programs support only a few ID3v2.3 tags and can ruin unsupported tags.

More info:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=76998
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itpromedia/thread/5ba4df81-29ac-43ad-8920-764faf3c6835/
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=92813

Though it is a bit odd that also the Genre tag is ruined (if the problem is indeed caused by the MS programs). In my experience the Genre tag is supported in the MS programs and it should have survived from an accidental tag write, but perhaps the new way to use the so called NULL character as a delimiter changed that.

Title: Re: Interesting problem with genre tags
Post by: Crayola Boy on February 25, 2012, 11:30:26 am

Thanks for the links. I don't change tags through explorer on W7 (that I know of), but it looks like this is the problem I'm having. You rock.