Strange result after using the filter

[tornrock]

Hi everybody

I’m new with mp3tag, so I need help for a little problem.
I used the Filter function to display informations about a precise singer. This musician has two mp3 files on Windows explorer, each of them on two separate directories, with one named from the complete name of the singer. But the name of this musician also appears in the comment section of another mp3 file, which is a song from another singer. The problem is that when I type the name of the artist (the first cited), mp3tag shows me only the file in which the artist is only mentioned in the comment section, but not the two mp3 files of the artist (which are both in directories with the artist's name). Plus, mp3tag tells me that the fields Interpreter and Title are empty, when VLC shows that they are not (except for one of the two files).
Can somebody help me solve this, please? And how to tell mp3tag to also take in account names of directories in the Filter function?

[ohrenkino]

@tornrock

Plus, mp3tag tells me that the fields Interpreter and Title are empty, when VLC shows that they are not (except for one of the two files).

AFAIK VLC has a cache ...
Still, could you show us a screenshot of the extended tags dialogue Alt-T of ONE of the files that has no data but should?
Also, a screenshot of the OptionsCtrl-O > Tags>Mpeg would help.

[tornrock]

Thank you for this amazing reactivity!

[MotleyG]

See this thread about the use of MP3Gain and the impact it has on your audio file tag info. There are other threads describing similar results.

Running Mp3Gain album analysis makes mp3 tags disappear in Mp3tag only

I have no idea what happened here. I have been running Mp3Gain on all my mp3s for over 20 years and I have never had a problem. I just generated these mp3s so they are brand new files made this afternoon from FLAC files using CueTools. The tags are perfect using Tag&Rename and Foobar2000 but all of a sudden the tags just don't show in Mp3Tag. If I right click on a file and show the extended tags this is all I get: [image] I remade a directory of mp3s and did not run Mp3Gain on them and th…

[ohrenkino]

It shows that you have APE tags in the files - please set the options so that you do not read APE tags.
Reload the files and see whether you get better results.

[tornrock]

Thank you, ohrenkino! After unchecking the 3 APE boxes, Interpreter and Title field of one of the two files are full. But my problem with the Filter is still there.

[ohrenkino]

Could you please show us the filter expression?

[tornrock]

Ok! This is it! As you will see, only one of the two files appears.

And when I type the full name of the artist, only the file in which he’s present only in the comment appears. Even the prevous file disappeared, while its parent directory contains the full name:

[ohrenkino]

If you look at the documenation:

To filter the File List simply start typing in the filter field. As a result, all files that contain the specified filter string in their tag or file name are listed in the File List.

Then you see that the _PATH is not part of the default filter.
If you add further words, then all these words have to be part of the tag data and/or filename.

[tornrock]

I see! But is there a way to add _PATH in the Filter function? This possibility would completely solve this type of problem (it seems to me).

[ohrenkino]

Apparently, you cannot mix both: the general filter that looks for a string anywhere in the tag data and the filename (but not the path) or you specify where to look, e.g.
%artist% HAS Junior OR %_path% HAS Junior

[tornrock]

O Lord! Thank you ohrenkino! Thanks a lot! At least I have now a solution to this haunting problem, without forgetting the most important: a better understanding of mp3tag, a software I really need.
Thank you men, for your time and help.

[ohrenkino]

I just tested a little more - try:
* HAS Junior OR %_path% HAS Junior

[tornrock]

This, also worked! It’s very nice! Thank you!