Then click the "save" icon in mp3tag menu to make sure it reads and writes all this info, then click the red X next to save icon to "remove" the ID3v1 and APE tags. Once those are set, when open a file in mp3tag and look at extended tags, you'll see all possible info in those files, no matter what the source of the tags (id3v1, v2 or ape). In mp3tag are you sure you have the following settings in the tag settings: If it says "keep" that means there are different values within the field (i.e., title field).ģ. In mp3tag, the way to see all the tags in a file is to right click on a file (or files), then choose "extended tags" then you'll see all the tags listed that are in that group of files. In any case, you should test this with one of the files where you are seeing correct info in mp3tag but not in itunes.Ģ. It may be that just playing the file or opening the file properties in itunes will also update.can't recall. But I know for sure that if you delete the file from your itunes library (but not delete the file itself), then re-add the file to the itunes library, it will then show the new tag info. There are several ways to do this but I've forgotten as I don't use itunes for much anymore. When you edit tags, iTunes won't show the newly added tag info/edits until your force itunes to reread the tags and update the itunes internal library info. even the ones which appear to be corrupted after my recent blunderġ. and some also have "APEv2" written on the end. In fact most of my MP3s say "ID3v1 ID3v2.3". Or is it just a matter of getting into a tag editing program and changing the tags manually? Perhaps you could also tell me: once the music files are in my system, am I able to update MP3s with ID3v1 tags to ID3v2 ? Thanks very much - your reply certainly qualifies as being written in plain English! I'll go to that Wiki link in a moment. It can also display text in languages other than English, which ID3v1 is unable to do. ID3v2 is pretty much unrelated and not only supports more types of information, but it supports tags of variable length, which allows it to hold longer artist, album, and track names than ID3v1 can. if the title of your song is more than 30 characters, you can only store the first 30. The short form is that ID3v1 supports only a few fields and has a strict limit on the number of characters in each field, e.g. Quote from: Aleron Ives on 10:49:30 Wikipedia has an ID3 article, but I don't know if it qualifies as being written in plain English. Otherwise I'm in a spot of bother and it will take me some weeks at least to put things right. The tags must still be in the files somewhere so is there any way I can rectify my careless mistake? I know this must sound stupid to some of you but it will be a blessing for me if I can correct this. While iTunes seems intact and the 800 songs are all showing up in the playlist, when I open Tag&Rename editor, the tags are all missing again - so tags which show up in iTunes do NOT show up outside of it. I'm now using a library back-up I created halfway through the job on a 2nd computer and found something really odd. I just remembered that during the long tagging job, I was bulk editing thousands of songs and deleted what appeared to be a redundant 2nd Comments field, called Comments IDv1 or something like that. Other data, like song titles, were corrupted and had lost letters off the end of them. The fields which were affected were grouping, composer, comments, track#, disc# and artwork - none of which I'd tampered with. It turned out they weren't lost, but that vast amounts of metadata was missing from the files, making them no longer eligible for the playlist. When it was over I found that one of my iTunes smart playlists had "lost" 800 files. I did a large amount of tag editing of my iTunes MP3 library yesterday, copying Artist field to Albumartist and stuff like that.
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