After using mp3diags to remove a lot of garbage from my files, I am left with empty or no tags on 13000 items all album and title, artist and album artist and artwork and track number are now erased after mp3diags. This is in the ob category in mp3diags iirc.
Any way to save the most standard tag state with all the info and art corresponding to the files using the known folders and restore after operations in mp3diags, using mp3tag? Would it write the tag data from an open session of mp3tag to save the lot with the known file tag data remaining in place or in the entries in the editor, if the mp3diags is used to operate while the open mp3tag is there? This probably wouldn't work but anyone tried it?
Basically opened the files in explorer to see. Nothing there. Plus they show OB status in mp3diags which states no tag data is the status of the OB status. Now I have restored from the backup again and trying again. Is there a problem deleting the v1 tags in mp3tag. Should I delete them in mp3diag instead?
I just cut them. I just figured maybe there could be some loss of the appropriate tags if I just cut out the v1 and don't do some conversion to the other version 2.3 first. I don't really know how these programs work. I need to keep the information, but then it gets deleted when I run the operations in mp3diags so I don't know what it's attached to in the first place.
Now I am looking for a way to backup all the tags in 46000 songs and their cover art, and restore it to the files after doing the mp3diags operations, and this post was the first result on a DuckDuckGo search for "how to save all album artworks and restore to tags"
Most results show people who want the automatic artwork installed. But I have already done that work and it took YEARS. I just want to backup the art that is already in the files, to a backup tree, that will retag them into the appropriate files in the tree directed folders after doing the other operations on the mp3 files. Any thing that does that?
Use the action to export covers to the file system. Use a file name that links the picture files with the audio file, e.g.
File name: %album%_%cover_type%
To backup the tag fields, use the export. Take care that each record for each file contains the path for the file, so that during import record and file can be identified.
I just tried the file that you supplied in the other thread: medac by the who.
That file has ID3V2.2 tags - which MP3diags does not like and rates them as "unsupported ID3 tags".
If you load such a file (with 2.2 tags) in MP3tag, set MP3tag to save ID3V2.3 tags and then press Ctrl-S to save the tag again, the tag gets translated from V2.2 to V2.3. Subsequently MP3diags does not complain any more about unsupported ID3 and unsupported streas.
Try it with a single file first.
This does not say anything about other problems other files might have or problems that are hidden beneath the stranger tag version.
I think that the V1 tags are not the problem but the V2.2.
Create a column in the filie list to show the tag version
Value: %_tag_read%[ (%_tag%)]
sort by that column and identify those with V2.2 tags.
Treat these files first in the described way and then re-scan with MP3diags to see which problems remain.
But I don't think I want the v1 tags as they are additional to the 2.3 v 2.3 tags. I am pretty sure I wrote lets see...32000 of them or acquired them somehow. I have to import my backup of very older versions of the files to see for sure what had v1 tags before I even got mp3tag. It will also take a while as I have to import it and first find a place it can be imported to. Can I just hit 'save' for the v1 tags and they will also be converted to 2.3 only (as they now have both 2.3 v 3 and v1?
Let us get rid of the V1 tags after the other problem has been dealt with - which I think is a much graver affair.
To get rid of V1 tags:
Set Ctrl-OTags>Mpeg to
Set read only to V1.
Set write to only V2.3
Set delete only to V1.
Load the files. You will see now the contents of the V1 tags. You may also want to filter for files that have V1 tags at all so that the process is speeded up:
Filter: %_tag% HAS V1
Select the files.
Right-click on the file list and select "Cut tag".
Go to the options again, set V2 to be read, written and deleted, press F5 to re-read the tag data and see which data is still present.
I have already removed the v1 tags a day or 2 ago (these were from the backup). My only concern was that these could need to be converted rather than cut, though all also have 2.3 side by side in my column sorted by tag type. I was thinking I would try the conversion in mp3diags this time since I had the bad problems before but I don't know what the problems were.
Also I have a short list of 2.4 tags. Would you think I should convert them to 2.3?
Other problems I have seen that I didn't see before, a short list of files sorting the bitrate or sampe rate columns with low low bitrates, like 48 and/or low and weird sample rates like 8000. Is there a header that is misreading these? Because the ones with the sample rates that are low, tend to have times that are extra long of course. The players seem to read them right, but there is an issue someplace.
I don't see a reason unless your player cannot cope with these tags.
Now I am puzzled as you just said
So they are still there and aren't at the same time ...
Honestly: treat the V2.2 problem and get a huge load of problems solved in a jiffy, I would assume.
Ye so I had removed the v1 in the working folder that I erased and restored from the backup. They are in the backup because I am unsure what happens if I just delete them all. The 2.3 v 3 and the v1 are both there, I am guessing because I wrote the v1 tags last year when I retagged almost every song in mp3tag after checking the box to write v1 tags.
No I can see that but what irritates me is that Pontiac Brothers song Can't Get Out Of Bed. I can delete the rest of these they were just recommendations. But that was ripped originally from a CD.