# conductor field in FLAC files not working (bug?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [September 10, 2016, 10:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conductor-field-in-flac-files-not-working-bug/18226 "2016-09-10T10:42:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![filbert](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@filbert](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/filbert)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 10:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conductor-field-in-flac-files-not-working-bug/18226/1 "2016-09-10T10:42:46Z")
Hi Folks, I'm having an issue with the conductor field (I have predominately classical music) in FLAC files. The 'conductor' field refuses to change when I update it. I have tried this via the standard GUI and via the 'Extended Tags' dialogue. When I change the tag it just goes back to what it was. In the example screen shot attached, the conductor has come from a previous CD I was working with and has no relation to this recording. Is this a bug? I can't remember having this problem in the past but it is a while since I did any work on my collection. Has anyone any advice? ![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/a/abc3b3e64638bae802a60431fa3ed5d912d51b96.png) ---
**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 11:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conductor-field-in-flac-files-not-working-bug/18226/2 "2016-09-10T11:26:35Z")
> [@filbert](#): > > Hi Folks, > > I'm having an issue with the conductor field (I have predominately classical music) in FLAC files. The 'conductor' field refuses to change when I update it. I have tried this via the standard GUI and via the 'Extended Tags' dialogue. When I change the tag it just goes back to what it was. > In the example screen shot attached, the conductor has come from a previous CD I was working with and has no relation to this recording. > > Is this a bug? I can't remember having this problem in the past but it is a while since I did any work on my collection. > > Has anyone any advice? What kind of tags (versions) do these files have? Just FLAC or also ID3? If so, get rid of the ID3 tags. FLAC files should only feature flac tags (Ogg vorbis comments). ---
**Author:** ![filbert](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@filbert](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/filbert)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 5:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conductor-field-in-flac-files-not-working-bug/18226/3 "2016-09-11T05:59:59Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#): > > What kind of tags (versions) do these files have? Just FLAC or also ID3? > If so, get rid of the ID3 tags. FLAC files should only feature flac tags (Ogg vorbis comments). I have no idea. I'll have to do some googling before I understand the difference. They've been tagged with dbPoweramp when I ripped them to flac and edited with mp3Tag. I assume that would make everything consistent? Or is that naive??? ---
**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 11:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conductor-field-in-flac-files-not-working-bug/18226/4 "2016-09-11T11:17:21Z")
> [@filbert](#): > > I have no idea. I'll have to do some googling before I understand the difference. They've been tagged with dbPoweramp when I ripped them to flac and edited with mp3Tag. > I assume that would make everything consistent? Or is that naive??? If you scroll to the right there should a column that shows the tag versions in a file. Ideally, this should show only "flac". If there is alaso a "(id3V2)", then cut the tag until you are left with flac only. MP3 files have ID3 tags, flac files have Ogg Vorbis comments. They should not be mixed. ---
**Author:** ![garym](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/garym/32/4822_2.png) [@garym](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/garym)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conductor-field-in-flac-files-not-working-bug/18226/5 "2016-09-11T13:42:57Z")
If the files were ripped with dbpoweramp, they will only have proper FLAC tags (vorbis comments) and NOT ID3vX tags. But as noted, right click in mp3tag columns, select customize, and tick the "tag type" item so that you see for yourself which tag type is in each file. ---
**Author:** ![garym](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/garym/32/4822_2.png) [@garym](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/garym)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conductor-field-in-flac-files-not-working-bug/18226/6 "2016-09-11T14:36:11Z")
> [@filbert](#): > > Hi Folks, > > I'm having an issue with the conductor field (I have predominately classical music) in FLAC files. The 'conductor' field refuses to change when I update it. I have tried this via the standard GUI and via the 'Extended Tags' dialogue. When I change the tag it just goes back to what it was. > In the example screen shot attached, the conductor has come from a previous CD I was working with and has no relation to this recording. > > Is this a bug? I can't remember having this problem in the past but it is a while since I did any work on my collection. > > Has anyone any advice? Probably not this simple, but to be sure: when you edit the conductor tag info do you then click the SAVE button, and then you should see a popup saying something like "mp3tag saving X files". Also, you can save yourself some clicks by going into TOOLS \> TAGS and ticking the "save tags when using arrow/single click" ---
**Author:** ![ryerman](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ryerman/32/5285_2.png) [@ryerman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ryerman)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 2:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conductor-field-in-flac-files-not-working-bug/18226/7 "2016-09-11T14:39:45Z")
fyi Mp3tag reports ID3v2.3 tags contained in a FLAC file but not ID3v1 tags. ---
**Author:** ![filbert](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@filbert](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/filbert)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 7:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conductor-field-in-flac-files-not-working-bug/18226/8 "2016-09-12T07:40:51Z")
Thanks for all the help guys. Well, Mp3tag reports flac in the tag column. I have added the 'Conductor' field to the tag panel and this looks correct (see screenshot) but the conductor columns still shows the wrong info. If I edit it in the column, as soon as I press enter, it reverts to the bad data. Looking at some of the tracks in LMS, it's showing the correct data It looks like the tag is correct but is being displayed wrongly in the gui ![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/8/8c9fd53fda40a28501b0e06c76413843d9ea72a8.png) ---
**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 7:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conductor-field-in-flac-files-not-working-bug/18226/9 "2016-09-12T07:42:35Z")
> [@filbert](#): > > Thanks for all the help guys. > > Well, Mp3tag reports flac in the tag column. > > I have added the 'Conductor' field to the tag panel and this looks correct (see screenshot) but the conductor columns still shows the wrong info. If I edit it in the column, as soon as I press enter, it reverts to the bad data. > > Looking at some of the tracks in LMS, it's showing the correct data > > It looks like the tag is correct but is being displayed wrongly in the gui Then show us the definition of the column for conductor. ---
**Author:** ![garym](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/garym/32/4822_2.png) [@garym](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/garym)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 9:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conductor-field-in-flac-files-not-working-bug/18226/10 "2016-09-12T09:24:05Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#): > > Then show us the definition of the column for conductor. I suspect that you're using two different conductor tags. LMS is reading one and mp3tag another. The column "value" definition will be useful as ohrenkino noted. Also, in LMS, click on one of the track names, then in popup, click on "view tags". What is the exact tag field name it reports for "conductor"? also, in mp3tag, click on File \> Options \> tags \> mapping. Do you notice anything odd there in the mapping info? ---
**Author:** ![filbert](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@filbert](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/filbert)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conductor-field-in-flac-files-not-working-bug/18226/11 "2016-09-14T18:36:32Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#): > > Then show us the definition of the column for conductor. I'm not sure how to do that but the screen shot below shows the extended tag dialogue and that the field being used is 'CONDUCTOR' The correct value is shown every where apart from the main GUI. ![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9f6a71f32a64788a8709dfb2292b64a66b8db75b.png) ---
**Author:** ![filbert](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@filbert](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/filbert)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conductor-field-in-flac-files-not-working-bug/18226/12 "2016-09-14T18:46:01Z")
AH! Now I've fixed it! When I look at the customise columns dialogue, the data in the ''Value' field was static data and not the variable. I'm not sure how that happened. Maybe I changed it, thinking that where it said 'value' it was the content of the field and not a variable containing the data. I still haven't used Mp3Tag a lot. I'm working through Florian's email lessons at the moment. Sorry to have taken up your time folks and thanks for helping me sort it out. ---
**Author:** ![garym](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/garym/32/4822_2.png) [@garym](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/garym)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conductor-field-in-flac-files-not-working-bug/18226/13 "2016-09-14T18:48:16Z")
great! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conductor-field-in-flac-files-not-working-bug/18226/14 "2026-02-09T12:26:24Z")
Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:26pm UTC