I pretty much use CueTools exclusively to manipulate my collection. My only issue with CT is that it writes the track numbers as xx/xx which I do not like. I have confirmed with CT support that this is the default and it is not changeable. It is not a big deal as I simply use either Mp3Tag or Tag&…

I doubt it is important to be honest. I will do things as I have been and just make the mp3 tracks to have a TRACK field value in xx format. I really don’t see the need to have a total track # for the album. I also don’t plan to change the track numbers of the FLAC files in Tag&Rename anymore bec…

I just made these FLAC tracks from a WavePack image file and here are the tags using Mp3Tag: [image] And the exact same files’ tags when viewed in Tag&Rebame: [image] Now I just made mp3s out of the same image file using the same mask from CueTools so it has exactly the same tag info and you c…

As you can see there is a field TRACKTOTAL in the correctly tagged flacs. So you either add a column for TRACKTOTAL so that you see the extra information. Or you modify the column definition for TRACK to %track%[/%tracktotal%] so that it looks like the mp3 track number. This applies only to the…

I understand what you are saying but I don’t want to manipulate the tags after because that is a pain and wasted work. What I am trying to understand is why the very same FLAC tracks show the track numbering as different between Mp3Tag and EVERY OTHER tagging software. Yes, I prefer the way it sho…

[image] Ronstang: but the very same file shows as xx/xx in every other editor. It is the way that other programs process the information. They hide the information from you that different files and tag types follow different standards. MP3tag, on the other hand, shows transparently the real …

Well, is there a way to globally add the TRACKTOTAL field to all mp3s loaded into Mp3Tag that would only take an “ACTION” I suppose to populate those fields for each album? Believe me, I am not complaining, I am just trying to understand this stuff and standardize my collection and how I work with …

TRACKTOTAL in MP3s would be a user-defined field that gets probably ignored by most players. So I doubt that it is a good idea to fill all file types with TRACKTOTAL. If you use MP3tag to tag your files, then the data in TRACK gets split into the standard compliant fields for the various tag types. …

Need help understanding track #s showing up different in Mp3Tag over Tag&Rename

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ohrenkino August 7, 2025, 6:48pm 2

So little information with screenshots, esp. the extended tags dialogue of a file that look right and one that does not - could you please follow these guidelines: