Author Topic: Media Type tag replaced with SOURCE MEDIA for flac files  (Read 1912 times)

sleepless

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I started using the custom "Media Type" tag recently and noticed MB writes these tags differently for flac/vorbis than other applications do:

Both MusicBee and MP3Tag write "File Type" as TFLT for mp3/ID3,  BUT... for flac/vorbis Musicbee writes MEDIATYPE and not FILETYPE (MP3Tag)
 
Both MusicBee and MP3Tag write "Media Type" as TMED for mp3/ID3, BUT... for flac/vorbis Musicbee writes SOURCE MEDIA and not MEDIATYPE (MP3Tag)

Is this a bug? If not, this means I have to use 2 different custom tags for the same field: "Media Type" for mp3 and "File Type" for flac. It seems odd that MB would write "File Type" tags as MEDIATYPE when a "Media Type" tag also exists. I think "File Type" should be written as FILETYPE and "Media Type" as MEDIATYPE, No?

TY

hiccup

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I don''t think there exists an agreed recommendation for these tags for vorbis.
MP3tag doesn't even have mappings for them.
For vorbis tags in general it will use the name of the tag, unless the user defines a mapping himself.

https://help.mp3tag.de/main_tags.html

So you could create a mapping for them in mp3tag.