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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0011475 | MMW v4 | Properties/Auto-Tools | public | 2013-11-11 22:47 | 2013-11-16 02:21 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | immediate | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 4.1 | ||||
| Target Version | 4.1 | Fixed in Version | 4.1 | ||
| Summary | 0011475: FLAC: Album Artist metadata is lost when file is tagged | ||||
| Description | 1 Open flac track in MMW 4.1 / MP3 tag to verify that all metadata incl. artwork is populated 2 Edit metadata (I edited rating / disc #) of the track --> Album Artist field is empty (MMW still shows the Album Artist field, but MP3 Tag shows that it's been deleted). | ||||
| Additional Information | http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=43257 http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?19411-Vorbis-Comment-%28FLAC%29-remapping-questions http://forums.linn.co.uk/bb/showthread.php?tid=1585 | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Fixed in build | 1671 | ||||
| related to | 0011202 | closed | michal | MMW v4 | MP3Tag FLAC tags Composer and Album Artist not read |
| related to | 0006067 | resolved | rusty | MMW v4 | Help incorrect for FLAC Album Artist standard |
| related to | 0006068 | closed | rusty | MMW v4 | Help incorrect for FLAC AA written |
| related to | 0005052 | new | MMW v4 | Tag Mapping Panel | |
| related to | 0004809 | closed | peke | MMW v4 | FLAC and OGG ALBUMARTIST tag is not saved |
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The problem, in this case, is caused by the fact, that MP3 tag does not fill value from "ALBUM ARTIST" field to its "Album artist" editbox, it shows it only in "Extended tags" dialog. It knows only "ALBUMARTIST" field. We could resolve it only by writing to "ALBUMARTIST" field too (currently we only read from this field). But the information will be redundant. I think, it should be resolved on MP3 tag side. I did not find any standard for album artist field, but I think, "ALBUM ARTIST" is more common. Currently we write album artist to "ALBUM ARTIST" and "ENSEMBLE" fields, field "ALBUMARTIST" would be the third... Note, that the same will be for OGG, they share the same tag format (ogg comments). |
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Notwithstanding the larger issue (the fact that the Album Artist field doesn't have a standard tag format, and the only real solution might be to let the user choose what tag format to use, given that using multiple tags can cause other problems on some devices)), the problem here is that there's a regression of sorts for users of previous versions of MMW. i.e. Users that have FLAC tracks that worked correctly in 4.0.7, and didn't lose ALBUMARTIST metadata when tagged, now seem to lose that metadata in 4.1. |
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Fixed in build 1671. It is united now - FLAC and OGG plugins write to all 3 album artist fields and use the following precedence order for reading: ALBUM ARTIST, ALBUMARTIST, ENSEMBLE. For the future, we can try to make it configurable (issue 0005052) |
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Verified 1671 |
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Verified 1671 |
