March 15th, 2010 by , under nnmj.com.
I recently noticed that alot of song titles in many of my albums had become truncated... This seemed odd as I haven't been near them since dumping them on the xbox drive.... I tag (or re-tag) all my mp3's with MP3Tag so they are ID3 v2.3. I remove all other types of tag to avoid confusion. Now I've ftp'd several of the albums back to the PC and it appears all the tags have been changed to APE truncating lots of song titles in the process. I copied the album back over from my PC backup (still ID3 v2.3) and rescanned and said album is back to normal. The bottom line is that either myself or my girlfriend must have pushed a button somewhere to cause xbmc to overwrite all my tags. This is really annoying and I would like to avoid it happening again so if someone could tell me what not to press and on which screen (there was no prompt or indication that this was happening) that would be cool. Thanks in advance.Is there a script that I might have used that could have changed tag info maybe? Either way I'm gonna just overwrite all 670 albums with the originals from the PC so forget about it I suppose. It's gonna bug me for weeks tho..... bjonkers :)I'm as confused as you are Jonathan... But honest to god I can take a picture of those 4 CD's in my hand. I ripped them with WMP11 which tagged them with ID3 v2.3 then ftp'd them to the Xbox where they've remained ever since. I don't use foobar (or any media player other than WMP11), and I check all my tags with MP3Tag. Anyway the original rips are still on the PC drive and are all still ID3 v2.3 exclusively. I just trying to understand what's happened and have NO desire to send you on a wild goose chase. I have checked more of my own rips both on PC and Xbox and all the Xbox ones now read as mentioned above whereas the PC originals (which were ftp'd over) are still ID3 v2.3.
I've certainly no wish to get into an argument and am quite happy to just drop this (it's no real inconvenience as I have the backups), but it is very mysterious and I though you might be interested.
Cheers anyway, and sorry if I'm getting on your nerves with this.And how did the xbox know that the publisher (reported in the APE tag in your "xbox" version, but NOT present in either of the ID3 tags in the "PC" version) was "Blanco Y Negro" for the "Chardonnay" track?
The "Publisher" tag is not even read by XBMC.
Furthermore, the Morcheeba track has a BAND tag (albumartist), a COMPOSER tag, and the PUBLISHER tag, none of which are in the ID3 tags.
Something else wrote those tags, but it wasn't XBMC. My money would be placed on something like foobar2000.
Cheers,
JonathanXBMC does not write tags at all, so that's simply not possible.
What DID change recently was APEv2 tags were by default switched off for MP3 files.
Thus, we conclude that the APEv2 tags were ALWAYS present in your files. Just that they were being read by default before, and now no longer are. Thus the ID3 tags are the ones that are truncated.Well.... I just checked 10 albums that I ripped from my own CD's using Windows Media Player and they all have APE v2 tags. This is odd as the files are still one my PC hard drive as well and they are definately ID3 v2.3 (I just looked). I don't understand whats happened but something has changed all the xbox files to APE. I have never ripped anything with APE tags and my albums are ALL duplicated on my PC drive and none of those are APE. Confused.OK that makes sense....thanksIt's certainly intriguing, but as none of my files have done this switching, and I presume noone elses has either, as I'm sure we would have heard about it ;) That the code itself doesn't support writing of tags doesn't help things either.
This seems to indicate that it's something on your end.
As the APE tags have more information than the ID3 ones, the most obvious explanation is that the ID3 tags were derived from the APE ones or the APE tags were removed by some application and replaced with ID3. The ID3v2 tags don't appear to have any more info than what is in the ID3v1 tag, so an application that simply didn't know about APE tags (such as WMP11) may well go and kill them when it adds the extra stuff that it tends to do.
Note that the ID3v1 tags are also different (only in terms of the padding used at a quick glance) between the files as well, so ALL tags have changed between those files.
Whatever added the APE tag must have got the producer and composer information for the Morcheeba track from somewhere. Perhaps there's a 3rd party WMP11 plugin that could have caused this.
Let us know if you track down the reason.
Cheers,
JonathanNo... not buying it. Here are some example tracks. They were ripped from my own CD's in WMP11. Then they were FTP'd from my PC Music folder to Xbox. This is how they are when ftp'd back now. Every single album I've checked on the xbox is now showing (ID3v1 APEv2) in MP3Tag. I don't encode ANYTHING with APE tags, never have. Any album I've downloaded I've ALWAYS removed any APE tags if present and retagged as ID3 v2.3. Something has altered the tags. XBMC must be responsible as nothing else has access to the xbox HD.
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I'm not trying to be difficult here. In truth I don't really care as I can copy over the entire Music folder from the PC again but something has altered the tags and that is a fact.#If you have any other info about this subject , Please add it free.# |
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