I love Mp3tag, but it's access to metadata fields remains limited, and I really wish I could get access to more, primarily for "cleaning" the files. The attached image shows an example of an album loaded in Mp3tag, with the Extended Tags dialog open, and contrasted to the same album opened in Kid3 …

What kind of tags are in such a file? Also APE? Unfortunately, the extended tags dialogue does not show this info as more than 1 file has been selected.

[image] johnfoliot: Of particular importance is both Peak Value and Average Level values - I want to (need to) remove those as they impact playback I think you can cut and paste the whole tag for those files to remove these unsupported fields. They're written to ID3v2 PRIV frames and I made t…

[image] Florian: They're written to ID3v2 PRIV frames and I made the decision to not expose those for editing (they can also contain arbitrary binary information). And I guess that is what I am asking for - to re-think that decision. I find it interesting that I can add a new field (also - I …

You can't add PRIV frames via Mp3tag and my decision is based on the nature of those fields being private (PRIV is short for private). Exposing those also involves handling arbitrary binary data that cannot be rendered as string (other than being transformed to, e.g., base64 encoding). Handling tho…

[image] Florian: my suggestion is to remove the tags This is what I want to do anyway (remove those tags) - I don't want to write or re-write them - but I do not see a way to remove [PRIV] tags/fields not exposed in the UI. If there is a method of removing ALL metadata tags via Mp3tag (aka st…

[image] johnfoliot: If there is a method of removing ALL metadata tags via Mp3tag If you want to remove all tags from a file, see File → Remove tag . For MP3 files, it removes all tag formats that are enabled at Options → Tags → Mpeg → Remove . If you only want to remove the fields that are no…

OK, thank you. Not ideal, but workable.

Agreed. I have used the cut/paste method in the past but it always makes me feel nervous if doing more than a handful of files. What if there is an interruption during the paste operation? e.g. power outage, you accidentally exit Mp3tag etc. An action "Remove unknown fields" that can do this one fi…

This method should apply only to a single file, one where you would be having difficulty in processing it otherwise. Specifically it was for handling a track with a questionable source, to be able to remove fields that are labelled under PRIV and not accessible using mp3tag as explained above. Using…

[image] MotleyG: Specifically it was for handling a track with a questionable source, to be able to remove fields that are labelled under PRIV and not accessible using mp3tag as explained above. I think that other programs use PRIV frames where the program is perfectly OK: [image…

Improve metadata fields exposed

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ohrenkino January 23, 2023, 2:54pm 12

I think that other programs use PRIV frames where the program is perfectly OK: