I cannot get WavPack Image tags to read or write in Mp3Tag

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I have some WavPack images, quite a few actually as that is how I archive my CDs, and I just noticed that Mp3Tage will not read the current tag. The tag is readable in Tag&Rename. I cannot write a new tag to it with Mp3Tag either.

I turned on APE tags once again thinking this was the issue but there was no change. The tag is neither readable or writable.

Really the only important part here is to embed the album art so when I use CueTools I get the proper artwork.

I know that WavPack files use APEv.2 tags but all the other images in this group are actually APE images and once I added the tag info I wanted in T&R then refreshed in Mp3Tag those tags showed, but not the WV image.

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Ignore me. I am still getting used to this program and I forgot to turn some things back on in the APE section of settings. It is all working now.

It is just frustrating that Mp3Tag does not handle the APE tags like Tag&Rename where I don’t have to keep turning things on and off just to deal with my collection.

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Could you show us the settings that led to success?

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Keeping reading of APE tags at File → Options → Tags → Ape, Mpc, … enabled should do the trick. There is no need to keep turning things on and off for WavPack files.

These configuration options are affecting audio formats which are using APE tags by default (like Musepack, Monkey’s Audio, WavPack, …).

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But I had to turn it off because then my normal ID3 tags were not showing at all if there were any APE tags present for those files. The problem for me is my entire collection has been run through Mp3Gain which inserts an APE tag for the gain information.

I am in the process or remaking my Lossless collection to a standardized FLAC tracks for emby even though the majority of my image files are APE and WavPack. The mp3s I make from this I do not run through Mp3Gain because I have been schooled that I can do it different with Foobar2000.

The problem for me is emby, which I use daily, does not support the gain changes made by Foobar2000, but does those of Mp3Gain so I am going to have to buy another SSD and keep a mirrored collection for emby and these files will require me turning off all APE tag reading and writing or they won’t show up in Mp3Tag.

This is only becoming a problem because I have been using Mp3Tag so much lately that I am finding that I really don’t need Tag&Rename much anymore but I still have one glitch. CueTools makes FLAC tracks that show up in Tag&Rename with the track numbering as xx/xx, which I hate, but in Mp3Tag they show as xx, which is what I want. But the minute I use CueTools to then make mp3s their track numbers show as xx/xx. I use Mp3Tag to fix the mp3 tags but I still have to use Tag&Rename to change the FLAC track numbers. I am not sure what is happening here but I think it has to do with different types of tags in FLAC files. I am just learning all of this after 25 years as I have solely used Tag&Rename that whole time.

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This is not correct.

There is a section for MPEG and a section for Ape, Mpc in the options.

The settings in MPEG apply to MP3 files (which are no Wavpack files) and have no influence on the settings in Ape, Mpc.

To see tag data in MPx files, use the section in MPEG, for Wavpack use the settings in Ape, Mpc - there are independent from each other.

It remains true what @MotleyG has written in your other thread

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Yes, thank you. I am beginning to understand this as I play with it constantly. You have to understand I am coming back to my music collection after not messing with it for years.

Yes, I understand this too which is why I think that my FLAC tracks showing different numbering schemes in Mp3Tag and Tag&Rename are different but I don’t know how to reconcile it yet.

You have to have patience with me. I apologize for asking so much lately but I am in learning mode. I will understand this all soon but I have to get done finding the little problems that are arising based on how I have handled my collection in the past to learn it all because I am now aware of the differences until I run into a snag.

Thank you.

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It would be much easier to have patience if the discussions focussed on the functions and not the complaints.

With that in mind I find the topic title not appropriate as MP3tag does indeed read and write WavPack tags.

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I am sorry, I was just trying to be short in my description, I did not intend to make it look like it was Mp3Tag, I knew it was ME!! LOL!

I am finding Mp3Tag to be the best tagging software I have ever used but I still have a lot to learn to fully switch over and understand all the differences in the tags between different format files.

This wasn’t an issue before because it appears as if Tag&Rename masks all of this to so I never realized how much differences I was actually dealing with. I bought it 25 years ago to help my mother because at the time it was the best I could find and I have just been using it all that time.

Mp3Tag is awesome, it’s just me that has a lot to learn to fully exploit it’s abilities.

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Trust me, I am German too so I know that Mp3Tag is very powerful and well thought out with features many would not think of, I know that it is “just so” because that is how I am. I just have to learn to think like the Developer is all.

Kudos to all of you. I am learning tons that will make my life easier once I get over this bump.