Hi - I'm trying to set the tags on some files from the filename, but having a problem...
The files are named in the format
Artist - Album - Track - Title
When I opt to Convert Filename to Tag, it shows the correct info and also in the Preview, but when applied the Info is incorrectly pulled - the format of the Album is
Album Year-Year (no spaces either side of the dash) but it appears that the dash is being interpreted as a field divider when the converter runs - but not at the preview stage??
Any ideas? Hopefully some screenshots to show the problem...
You add data to a user-defined field called TRACK,2 - the standard name is TRACK
The screenshot fom MP3tag also shows that the album is filled as suggested in the preview.
At least in this session with the converter no data is written to YEAR. So a screenshot from the extended tags dialogue for a single file would be nice.
The second screenshot shows accurately the attempt to fill a user-defined field with the name TRACK,2 - and the Windiws explorer does not show user-defined fields.
This means that existing data in the field TRACK will not be updated as TRACK is not addressed.
Also, no data is written to YEAR - so it would be interesting to see if that happened before, hence the request to see a screenshot from the extended tags dialogue Alt-T
If the problem is the contents of YEAR then a different format string would still not explain the data in the year field as that is not updated in the example.
only artist, album and title are written in bold.
This means, these 3 are official tag field names.
track,2 is not an official field name, its a (very special) custom one and therefore not written in bold.
I strongy advice against using field names with a comma in its name.
