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 …

[image] Dick_Harpees: Also I have a short list of 2.4 tags. Would you think I should convert them to 2.3? I don't see a reason unless your player cannot cope with these tags. [image] Dick_Harpees: I have already removed the v1 tags a day or 2 ago (these were from the backup) Now I am …

Where did you see that all the tags are gone? Does MP3diags now say that there are no ID3V2.3 tags in the files any more? If you have the files still loaded in MP3tag then you could try Ctrl-S to write the tags and see whether this restores any tag data.

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 mp3di…

[image] Dick_Harpees: Is there a problem deleting the v1 tags in mp3tag Not that I am aware of. How do you do it?

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 operati…

[image] Dick_Harpees: Now I am looking for a way to backup all the tags in 46000 songs and their cover art 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…

[image] How to backup all tags, and then restore? Support You can use any character as long as it is unique or you have enclosed the field data in " during export. E.g. you could use $char(9), the tab character to separate the fields. There is no internal function that c…

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 ta…

Well that's 12163 files. Then there are like over 10 or 20 thousand v1s which I got back from backup. What should I do with those?

[image] Dick_Harpees: Then there are like over 10 or 20 thousand v1s which 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 …

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 tak…

Way to save tags for the files in mp3tag and restore after operations in mp3diags

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Dick_Harpees March 21, 2024, 7:31am 7

changing the word save to backup in my DDG search I came up with this post here: Same question that guy had.