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Title: Tag problem
Post by: Belarathon on November 06, 2014, 08:10:37 am: Hello:

I updated to '33, and MC proceeded to retag my two terabyte music collection. I went to great pains with a 3rd party program to tag my music; now I have to do it over again. Is there a way I can prevent this from ever happening again?
Title: Tag problem
Post by: Matt on November 06, 2014, 08:23:48 am: Quote from: Belarathon on November 06, 2014, 08:10:37 am
Hello:

I updated to '33, and MC proceeded to retag my two terabyte music collection. I went to great pains with a 3rd party program to tag my music; now I have to do it over again. Is there a way I can prevent this from ever happening again?

MC won't randomly retag. You can turn off tagging in Options > General > Update tags when file info changes
Title: Tag problem
Post by: 6233638 on November 06, 2014, 08:24:05 am: Quote from: Belarathon on November 06, 2014, 08:10:37 am
I updated to '33, and MC proceeded to retag my two terabyte music collection. I went to great pains with a 3rd party program to tag my music; now I have to do it over again. Is there a way I can prevent this from ever happening again?
Can you describe what happened?
What was changed?
Title: Tag problem
Post by: Belarathon on November 06, 2014, 08:52:56 am: Quote from: 6233638 on November 06, 2014, 08:24:05 am
Can you describe what happened?
What was changed?

Well, it didn't retag every single item, but I have 42 genres now where I only had about ten previously. I like to keep things simple. I've checked every conceivable option I can think of in regards to tagging, and they are all ticked off.

(http://bis.midco.net/nowvoyager3/mc/01.jpg)
(http://bis.midco.net/nowvoyager3/mc/02.jpg)
Title: Tag problem
Post by: Matt on November 06, 2014, 09:13:56 am: Are you running any 3rd party plugins in the program that might tag?

Also, what are some sample names it used for Genre?
Title: Tag problem
Post by: Belarathon on November 06, 2014, 10:09:06 am: Quote from: Matt on November 06, 2014, 09:13:56 am
Are you running any 3rd party plugins in the program that might tag?

Also, what are some sample names it used for Genre?

No 3rd party plugins. I use TagRename manually.

Here are the new genres. Note that I usually go with Ambient, Bluegrass, Classical, Electronic, Ethnic, Folk, Jazz, New Age, Rock.

(http://bis.midco.net/nowvoyager3/mc/Untitled.jpg)
Title: Tag problem
Post by: Matt on November 06, 2014, 10:19:31 am: Well, "Surf Rock" isn't anywhere to be found in our code. I think something else has to be engaging.
Title: Tag problem
Post by: Matt on November 06, 2014, 10:22:44 am: Maybe MC did an Update Library (from tags) and that's the genre value in the tags? This happens automatically at times with auto-import.
Title: Tag problem
Post by: 6233638 on November 06, 2014, 02:27:00 pm: Similar to the "duplicate files" problem, I bet these tags have been imported from cue files.
Title: Re: Tag problem
Post by: ssands on November 08, 2014, 03:39:13 am: Quote from: 6233638 on November 06, 2014, 02:27:00 pm
Similar to the "duplicate files" problem, I bet these tags have been imported from cue files.
Yep, similar happened to me. Really messed up my lib. Still haven't found all the damage...