Author Topic: Comment tag limit?  (Read 3124 times)

atjasc

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Is there a limit to how many characters can be contained in the comment box for an ID3 tag? It seems to allow quite a bit when I tested it out, but when I decided to have MusicBee take over my music collection from iTunes (auto-organization) it seems to have cut all of my comments to 45 characters and appended "_files" onto the end. So, I'm not sure why it did this, but I'd also like to know if there is a comment character limit if I just continue with MusicBee.
Thank you.

Bee-liever

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In Preferences> Tags (1), what format are you using for your tags?
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atjasc

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ID3v2.3
This is what was selected by default.

I'm also wondering if my comments will get clipped when I convert files in MusicBee (from mp3 CBR to mp3 VBR).

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I'm having no trouble with large comment:

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Debuted 1933 and peaked at #20                                                    Their name often linked with leader Glen Gray, the Casa Loma Orchestra was the first ''swing'' band. As early as 1929 they began playing the same mixture of hot jazz and sweet ballads that Benny Goodman would later popularize and that would dominate the music industry in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Originally named the Orange Blossoms, the group first formed in Detroit during the mid-1920s as an offshoot of Jean Goldkette's orchestra. Gray, then known as Spike Knoblaugh, joined the group in the winter of 1925-26 as a sax player. Henry Biagini was leader. Playing in and around the Detroit area the Orange Blossoms were booked into a brand new Toronto club called the Casa Loma in 1927. Built in preparation for a visit by the Prince of Wales the club never opened, and in 1929 the Orange Blossoms, shedding Goldkette's mantel and striking out on their own, decided to rename themselves the Casa Loma Orchestra in memorial.
The bandmembers formed a cooperative, dismissing Biagini and electing Gray as president and leader. Mel Jenssen became front man. They moved to New York and were soon booked into the Roseland Ballroom, where a representative from Okeh Records discovered them and offered a deal. Gene Gifford's imaginative arrangements set the band's style. Alternating between big band jazz and sentimental ballads the group sounded better on the latter than it did on the former. Never in its history did it really have a great lineup, and often times it sounded flat when attempting jazz. Nevertheless, the Casa Loma Orchestra had a unique sound and quickly began to attract the attention of the hipper college crowd.
After cutting six sides for Okeh the group signed with Brunswick. They were so popular however that Victor also signed them, and the group ended up recording on both labels simultaneously. Eventually they began to record exclusively for Brunswick and remained there until signing with Decca in 1943. Kenny Sargent, who also played sax, was vocalist. On their first sides for Okeh and Brunswick, they were billed as simply the ''Casa Loma Orchestra.'' Victor however billed them as the ''Glen Gray Orchestra.'' After leaving Victor they began using the combined moniker ''Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra.''
In 1933 and 1934 the group was featured on the Camel Caravan radio program, becoming the first swing band to appear on a commercial radio series. They played both summers at the Glen Island Casino, where frequent radio broadcasts helped boost their popularity across the country. By 1935, however, the swing era had begun, and the orchestra was no longer a trend setter. Gifford, whose alcoholism made him unreliable, was fired and replaced by Dorsey Brothers arranger Larry Clinton, who did his best at the difficult job of writing book for the band. Despite these setbacks they continued to remain popular, inaugurating the Paramount Theater's stage band policy and settling in to a booking at the swank Rainbow Room.
In 1937 Gray decided to front the group himself and dismissed Jenssen. Clinton left for Tommy Dorsey and was replaced by Dorsey arranger Dick Jones. Arranger Larry Wagner joined the following year. By 1940, however, the Casa Loma Orchestra had begun to lose its popularity. Major personnel changes followed. Tutti Camarata and Harry Rodgers now arranged. The LeBrun Sisters sang. Sargent left in 1943 and was replaced by female vocalist Eugenie Baird. Red Nichols also appeared with the band for a short time.
By 1945 the group's popularity had tanked, and they called it quits. In the mid-1950s Gray recorded a series of big band nostalgia albums for Capitol with a studio orchestra. The project was a huge success and Gray was offered his own band, but he declined and remained in retirement. He died from cancer in 1963.


and ID3v2.3.

Did you also write ID3v1 tags when using iTunes?  If so, iTunes will store the full comment in library, but truncate the actual tag.

BTW. It's not a good idea to convert from CBR to VBR.  Any gain in performance is more than cancelled out by the loss in quality of re-encoding the MP3.
Last Edit: April 04, 2014, 01:42:27 AM by Bee-liever
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atjasc

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Yes, I wrote the comments in iTunes (not sure if v1 though) so I guess that was the issue. I wish I never used iTunes to begin with.
I have to reduce file size at this point due to space limitations. My headphones are decent, but not high end enough to really notice a difference between 256 kbps CBR and ~190 kbps VBR.
Thank you.

boroda

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Bee-liever meant that reencoding from CBR to VBR results in poorer quality than direct encoding from lossless to VBR.