Hi,
I have a large (26 000 songs) music library stored on my BlueSound Vault device.
Many files miss the ALBUMARTIST tag and thus do not appear when I make a search with the BlueOS interface. I want to fill the missing ALBUMARTIST using the ARTIST tag.
I use MP3TAG on a Windows PC where the music library is accessible as a mounted drive (R:\Music on the file manager). My LAN uses WiFi.
With MP3TAG is set a filter to view only the files with empty ALBUMARTIST tag (albumartist MISSING AND artist PRESENT). This gives a list of 13 000 songs.
I then use the Conversion/Tag-Tag menu option to load the albumartist field with the content of the artist field.
I tried with 1 file, with a set of 10, then 20. But when I selected 30 files at some point MP3TAG freezes and starts erasing tags in the files. The title and artist tags were removed in some file, one file was so corrupted that I couldn’t edit it with another tag editor and had to make a copy and recreate the tag set. This problem occurred twice.
Can you help diagnose the problem and find a sage solution for bulk tag editing ?
I would suggest to copy the songs you need to tag to a local SSD.
Then tag them as you already did it, but with the local files.
The last step would be to move the tagged files from your local SSD back to your R:
Hint:
Tagging over WLAN and for big files like FLAC or WAV needs a lot of time to rewrite the entire files.
You would have to make sure that no other program accesses the files while you edit them, esp. with a bulk function.
This includes indexing programs on a NAS:
I can't speak to the NAS/corruption issues, but I will just promote that you can create a very simple Action Group with an action to copy the %artist% field value into the albumartist field. The benefit is you can add a hotkey (add an ampersand & in the action group name).
The Convert Tag-Tag feature is something I haven't used much (yet), but I generally prefer Action Groups for things I need to do often (as my collection changes) or a lot at once (13,000 tracks). The keyboard shortcuts really make it go a lot faster without trying to do all files at once. I like to make sure what's going on makes sense.
Recently I had some albums with similar issues (no AlbumArtist), and wanted to copy the Artist field over. Some of the tracks had Artist values of something like Main Artist featuring Featured Artist. If I were doing thousands of files at once I wouldn't have spotted those and would have had issues with how those albums were listed in my player (listed by Album Artist --> Album).
The combination of a local copy of all my files on a USB drive and the use of Actions instead worked flawlessly. Editing so many files over a WiFi network was not a good idea. Thank you for the support.
