Can`t name some tracks with disk number 1/22 2/22 etc, it immediately jumps back to 1, 2 etc this only happens one one album only elsewhere i can name disks in the 1/22 2/22 etc pattern, these are flac files, but as i say only one album has this issue thanks

mp4 tags have a strictly numeric TRACK field that does not allow the / It would have been so nice to see the extended tags dialogue - as that probably shows the number of totals

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Found the reason the files were m4a not flac Converted to flac now all ok Don't see why being m4a should be an issue for mp3tag Thanks

m4a is used as a suffix for MPEG-4 Part 14 Audio containers. It can contain lossy encoded and also lossless encoded material. The metadata standard for a container has nothing to do whether an encoder works loss or lossless.

[image] poster: It can contain lossy encoded and also lossless encoded material. Usually the lossy variant contains AAC while the lossless variant contains ALAC. [image] Zaphod Beeblebrox: m4a not flac Converted to flac now all ok If your files were not of the ALAC variant, you have …

[image] Zaphod Beeblebrox: m4a should be an issue See also the documentation about tag fields exclusive to mp4 files: [image] Tag fields exclusive to MP4 - Tag Field Mappings – Mp3tag Documentation The list below gives an overview of all tag fields available in Mp3tag, their names…

Pardon my ignorance, but isn't mp4 a video format, was referring to m4a ab apple codec Thanks

You may have noticed the word [image] poster: container in the previous posts. MP4 describes a container that may contain further data of different formats. So m4a may be used for audio files, m4v for video files, m4b for audiobooks and mp4 in general. The tag format is mainly the same for…

Bit the files say m4a not mp4 :thinking:

m4a is a subcategory of mp4. What happens if you rename an m4a file to mp4? Does it show a video all of a sudden? Doesn't it play at all any more? What would be the difference between mp4 and m4v?

[image] Zaphod Beeblebrox: but isn't mp4 a video format, was referring to m4a ab apple The standard used is m4a is audio, m4v is video. Apple has extended this with other similar formats like m4r for ringtones. [image] Zaphod Beeblebrox: Can`t name some tracks with disk number 1/22 2/22 …

Cant name some tracks with disk number 1/22 2/22 etc

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