#186 Duplicated tags not preserved

[J. P.]

I found a few oddities with regards to tags that probably would use some tweaks.

1) Genres are processed instead of just copied. For example, a) genres beginning with numbers are converted to id3v1 numeric code—everything else is truncated. b) Multiple genres are truncated to returning only the first. Genre: type1(NUL)type2 becomes type1.

2) ID3 tag version is not preserved. For example, a ID3 v2.3 MP3 input file is split to v2.4 files. There seem to be no option to force the original tag and version.

3) Not really a bug, but could be a quirk. The new splits are given new track numbers with no option to preserve the original. This ought to be an option.

All else, a great program. Thanks.

I used v2.6.2 on Windows 7

[J. P.]

I apologize as I was in error. Please disregard the three items previously stated. However,

1) When using the -g %[@o] option in FLAC files, only the last genre remains in the output and therefore the original tags are not preserved. MP3 (ID v2.3) are OK with the -g option.

Is there some mechanism to retain all the tags?

[Munteanu Alexandru]

Hi,

Thank you for reporting this and sorry for the late reply.
You are having several GENRE tags in your input file ?
What is the output of the following command ?
$ metaflac --list --block-type=VORBIS_COMMENT input_file.flac

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Alex

[Munteanu Alexandru]

Sorry, you might not have metaflac.
In this case, can you provide a screenshot with the tags that you have in the input file and the ones that you get as output ?

[J. P.]

Thanks for the reply.
Here is the output of a test file…

F:_APPS\COMMANDS\Mp3splt>metaflac --list --block-type=VORBIS_COMMENT v:\05—copy.flac
METADATA block #1
type: 4 (VORBIS_COMMENT)
is last: false
length: 1154
vendor string: reference libFLAC 1.3.0 20130526
comments: 40
comment[0]: title=08—TITLE--FLAC--GENRE1+GENRE2
comment[1]: TITLESORT=58—TITLESORT--FLAC--GENRE1+GENRE2
comment[2]: ALBUMARTISTSORT=51—ALBUMARTISTSORT
comment[3]: ALBUMSORT=52—ALBUMSORT
comment[4]: ARTISTSORT=56—ARTISTSORT
comment[5]: ASIN=24000078
comment[6]: BAND=14—BAND
comment[7]: BPM=120
comment[8]: CATALOGNUMBER=26—CATALOGNO
comment[9]: COMPILATION=1
comment[10]: CONDUCTOR=27—CONDUCTOR
comment[11]: CONTENTGROUP=31—CONTENTGROUP
comment[12]: COPYRIGHT=1960
comment[13]: ENCODEDBY=19—ENCODEDBY
comment[14]: ENCODERSETTINGS=20—ENCODEDSETTINGS
comment[15]: INITIALKEY=B#
comment[16]: INVOLVEDPEOPLE=15—ROLE:PERSON;
comment[17]: ISRC=USRCM1500061
comment[18]: itunesadvisory=4
comment[19]: LYRICIST=18—LYRICIST
comment[20]: MIXARTIST=16—MIXER
comment[21]: ORIGALBUM=21—ALBUMORIG
comment[22]: ORIGARTIST=23—ARTISTORIG
comment[23]: ORIGLYRICIST=28—LYRICISTORIG
comment[24]: ORIGYEAR=1922
comment[25]: POPULARIMETER=62@RATED.COM|192|62
comment[26]: RATING WINAMP=5
comment[27]: SUBTITLE=30—SUBTITLE
comment[28]: Album=02—ALBUMα—
comment[29]: Artist=06—ARTISTβ—
comment[30]: Comment=13—COMMENT_LINE1
13—COMMENT_LINE2
13—COMMENT_LINE3
comment[31]: Genre=GENRE1—09
comment[32]: Genre=GENRE2—09
comment[33]: ALBUMARTIST=01—ALBUMARTIST
comment[34]: COMPOSER=17—COMPOSER
comment[35]: DISCNUMBER=4
comment[36]: comment md5=F51895A6069B44D11A4B1845F613E2F8
comment[37]: DATE=2003
comment[38]: ORGANIZATION=25—PUBLISHER
comment[39]: TRACKNUMBER=07

[Munteanu Alexandru]

Yes, duplicated tags are not fully supported now.

[J. P.]

Any change? Is the project on hiatus?