I'm in a nightmare trying to standardize my music tagging and apparently there's a subset of several thousand mp3 files that have both APE and ID3 tags. I want everything to have Id3 ONLY. The problem with these doubly-tagged files is that the APE tags and the ID3 tags don't always overlap; the APE…

This is something i was also thinking about because am facing the same problem. One solution would an option to save APE tags as the tag of your selection only if ID3 tag fields are empty.

[image] SpirosG: to save APE tags as the tag of your selection only if ID3 tag fields are empty If you use MP3tag all the time I do not think that you will run into any trouble. The problem arises if you use an application that only writes APE tags without updating also ID3Vx tags. Replayga…

Hi @ohrenkino , the problem is that there are tracks coming from DJ pools for example which are actually using APE and ID3 tags and many times they have some fields filled with APE and some others in ID3. If for example you prefer ID3v2.4 like i do (because of traktor's behaviour with ID3v2.3) and …

Are you sure that there are no files with the same APE-tag-fields and ID3-tag-fields but different content. Yes, for example there could be an mp3 that has the artist and song title saved in the APE tags, but the album title, year, and genre saved in the ID3... or vice versa. Or any combination o…

maybe you can try this. use MP3Tag to only view APE tags. export that into some file (text? CSV? HTML?) then, use MP3Tag to view ID3 tags. export that into another file (text? CSV? HTML?) compare both the files, using some kind diff tool, e.g. WinMerge and see side by side, which tags are miss…

I believe what i suggested before is way simpler than what you suggest, although I'm not sure if this is possible, only @Florian will be able to answer that. What i suggested is an option to save APE tags to ID3v"x" only if ID3vx tag field is empty.

Synchronize or merge APE & ID3 Tags?

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Are you sure that there are no files with the same APE-tag-fields and ID3-tag-fields but different content.