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Title: Formatting Tags corrupted across entire music library...
Post by: HAL Lives on April 21, 2018, 07:46:57 PM
Hello All

The Formatting Tags have become corrupted across my entire music library, but it's not consistent, as you can see from the two Mike Oldfield albums below.

(https://i.imgur.com/gAly4cF.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/tfErXAM.jpg)

And even where I have an album with just a single band name, such as "Air" below, because of the extra spaces that have appeared in the text fields, the Tag is still corrupted.

(https://i.imgur.com/RLQIX12.jpg)

Needless to say, every album was manually tagged as it was entered, and was 100% correct. I discovered this when I was backing up my FLAC files and my backup software told me it was backing up the entire collection, instead of just the two new albums I had added.

Does anyone know what has happened here?

Thanks
Paul
Title: Re: Formatting Tags corrupted across entire music library...
Post by: Steven on April 21, 2018, 08:11:23 PM
I cant say i have ever heard anyone reporting this issue before and there is no reason i can think of that would cause extra spaces to be inserted for flac files (mp3 i might find more plausible as it does have Unicode and ascii encoding formats).
Were all the affected files edited using musicbee? I am not sure if WMP can now edit flac files but just the act of opening a single file in WMP can cause it to go and auto-update files. Perhaps there are other applications you use that can update files eg. mini-lyrics can do so
Title: Re: Formatting Tags corrupted across entire music library...
Post by: HAL Lives on April 21, 2018, 08:58:58 PM
Hi Steve

I only use MusicBee to edit my files... the only thing I've done differently recently is to do with transferring my music and playlists to a Sony NW-AR45 DAP.

I couldn't get the MB Playlists to work on my Walkman and eventually installed Sony's Music Center software, which worked, but meant I had to duplicate everything, which sux!

I then went back to MB and finally figured out what I had been doing wrong, erased everything off the Sony and transferred my Playlists and music from MB.

It was after this that I discovered the corrupted Format Tags... could the Sony software have somehow messed with MB?!

Thanks
Paul