Author Topic: Metadata of track1 of albums deleted after searching for cover art.  (Read 379 times)

Petalmasher

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I installed the app, and then imported all my FLAC files from windows media player.  I noticed that there is a function where I right click on an album and select "Search the internet for picture" from the drop down menu. It brings up cover art pictures. I select the picture, and now I have the cover art displayed with the album... Cool, I did this for a bout 15 albums that had previously been missing cover art pictures.  I noticed that there was now a file full of songs by "unknown Artist". When I opened the file, I saw that the it was full of the first track from every album for which I had recently uploaded cover art.  The Metadata for Track 1 had been deleted every time I searched the internet and uploaded a picture.  I had to manually re-enter al the metadata to get all the track #1s to be added back to their respective albums.  I can only imagine this is some kind of glitch and not an intentional feature.

Steven

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I installed the app, and then imported all my FLAC files from windows media player.
I didnt think WMP supported flac files. So can you reconfirm that statement?
If that is the case, perhaps WMP only saved the artist/album etc to its database and not to the flac file. Perhaps send me a link to one of the flac files you havent touched yet

sveakul

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I installed the app, and then imported all my FLAC files from windows media player.  I noticed that there is a function where I right click on an album and select "Search the internet for picture" from the drop down menu. It brings up cover art pictures. I select the picture, and now I have the cover art displayed with the album... Cool, I did this for a bout 15 albums that had previously been missing cover art pictures.  I noticed that there was now a file full of songs by "unknown Artist". When I opened the file, I saw that the it was full of the first track from every album for which I had recently uploaded cover art.  The Metadata for Track 1 had been deleted every time I searched the internet and uploaded a picture.  I had to manually re-enter al the metadata to get all the track #1s to be added back to their respective albums.  I can only imagine this is some kind of glitch and not an intentional feature.
What Operating System?  What version of MusicBee?  Seeing a lot of stuff like this:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/flac-media-player-in-windows-10/0f6f0f87-d535-450c-bdfd-3e57ebb4124d
Yeah I know that's old but get rid of WMP and handle your metadata with MusicBee.  Be sure you have the latest version of MusicBee (NOT the Store version).  MB  handles FLAC and most other formats internally via BASS libraries and not with System codecs.