i was fixing some odd files where ther naming/importing got completely screwed up and i was left with fragments so i went through finding correct artist and adding/changing in MP3Tag and i saved and a very weird scary thing thing happened at some point - MP3Tag lost (most of) my changes/addition…

UPDATE pls see attached screenshots 1/2 have some info re tag versions but i have discovered thhat this has turned into a (different) bug in MP3Tag i discovered that if i click on the Artist field, the missing Artist name appears NOTE: i refreshed first. so anyway i did them all manually…

[image] dec: MP3Tag lost (most of) my changes/additions to Artist field, ie lie attachemnt, most of (not all) the Artist fields i added were gone I highly doubt that mp3tag arbitrarily moved or deleted only the artist tags. Of all the screenshots that you posted, the missing and most relevant…

OK, so you did not answer any of the questions: [image] ohrenkino: What kind of tag versions do you find in the MP3 files? APE? ID3V2.3? ID3V2.4? What kind of tag versions do you read and write? APE? ID3V2.3? ID3V2.4? You did not supply a screenshot of the extended tags dialogue and also no…

Well there is some hint from this image. [mp3tag-file-properties-21-06-2023 12-17-46] The tag info shows you have a mix of ID3v1, ID3v2.3, and APEv2. Usually this is a result of having different apps writing tag info to your files at different times. So this is likely the issue, and needs to be c…

duh. as i said, and implied, more than once, incl above, I CLICKED ON EACH MISSING ARTIST FIELD MANUALLY, ONE BY ONE

PS as this has only just happened when i was simply editing Titles as i have done for a month w/o a problem, and with no any Tag versions changes, i doubt that is the prob. seeing it hasn't happened before, i wonder if there was some caused by playng tracks in AIMP (to identify Artist), and concurr…

[image] dec: I CLICKED ON EACH MISSING ARTIST FIELD MANUALLY, ONE BY ONE That is one way. Or you could have used F5 or Ctrl+T to read the tags of the selected files. The dreaded documentation would have revealed that to you: [image] Keyboard Shortcuts – Mp3tag Documentation Over…

[image] dec: i discovered that if i click on the Artist field, the missing Artist name appears This will happen if you have the library option enabled, and have made any changes to the file outside of mp3tag after it was indexed. When you highlight a file, the changes will be found and updat…

many thanks for advice and comments

as per my previous, Refresh did NOT reflect chnages

[image] dec: Refresh did NOT reflect chnages Please show us the MPEG options in your program (3rd time now for this request)

Artist cf Contributing Artist Weird error

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ohrenkino June 22, 2023, 10:52am 21

here is a thread about the presence and removal of APE tags