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…

Which is also part of the descriptions in the FAQs and HowTos ... [image] Actions and batch-operations FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) How to copy one field value to another field? Example how to copy the content of the ARTIST field to the ALBUMARTIST field: …

[image] MarcB: 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 o…

[image] MarcB: my BlueSound Vault 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:

Will the mp3diags tool work on FLAC, WAV and other uncompressed files ?

as the program name says and the headline tells you MP3 Diags — identifies many different issues in MP3 files

@MarcB 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-…

Here's a screenshot of that simple action group: [DS039]

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.

MP3TAG erases tags while doing group tag editing

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ohrenkino September 16, 2024, 8:46am 3

Did you check that prior to editing?
As you found such files in your collection, I would run a check first.
Here are some links to diagnostic tools: