Why are tag fields duplicating after editing them in MM? [#15070]

[theta_wave]

Using 1741 here. I open up a track's property window (track here being FLAC), modify the artist field and press "OK". When I open up the same track using mp3tag, I immediately notice that the Date information is duplicated. Instead of showing one year, it displays two. This is why I am loathe to use mediamonkey as a tag editor, as it constantly screws up my FLAC tags.

[nohitter151]

See: http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... erties/4.0

For compatibility reasons MM write the year tag twice, once to YEAR and once to DATE for ogg/flac tracks.

[theta_wave]

See: http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... erties/4.0

For compatibility reasons MM write the year tag twice, once to YEAR and once to DATE for ogg/flac tracks.

I would be fine if that was the case, but that is not what MM is doing. It is creating duplicate YEAR fields in my FLAC tags (see pic in OP). I don't see a separate DATE field in MM-edited FLAC tags. All I see are duplicate YEAR fields, no DATE fields created after modifying any field in MM.

[nohitter151]

See: http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... erties/4.0

For compatibility reasons MM write the year tag twice, once to YEAR and once to DATE for ogg/flac tracks.

I would be fine if that was the case, but that is not what MM is doing. It is creating duplicate YEAR fields in my FLAC tags. I don't see a separate DATE field in MM-edited FLAC tags. All I see are duplicate YEAR fields, no DATE fields created after modifying any field in MM.

mp3tag maps tags to a user-readable format, so it probably just interprets the "DATE" field as YEAR. Or maybe it sees it as YEAR because the string in DATE tag is only 4 characters.

Regardless I would hardly call this "constantly screws up my FLAC tags".

[oeyoeve]

See: http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... erties/4.0
For compatibility reasons MM write the year tag twice, once to YEAR and once to DATE for ogg/flac tracks.

I would be fine if that was the case, but that is not what MM is doing. All I see are duplicate YEAR fields, no DATE fields created after modifying any field in MM.

mp3tag maps tags to a user-readable format, so it probably just interprets the "DATE" field as YEAR. Or maybe it sees it as YEAR because the string in DATE tag is only 4 characters.

I am struggling with this as well. If you check in Foobar2000, you can see that the date field for every album tagged in MM with 2014 contains 2014;2014
This is annoying! Regardless of what reason MM may have for doing this, it should be possible to choose in settings.

[DaKo]

I'm having the same "problem".

For MP3 files there is the option to add

[MP3Tagging]
DisableFrames=TDRC;TDOR;
EnableFrames=TYER;TDAT;TORY;

to MediaMonkey.ini. Is there something similiar for FLAC files?

[Peke]

Looks like this needs to re evaluated again added as https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=15070

[DaKo]

Thanks for evaluating it.