OK ... this is going to be a hard one to pin down I think. But any
help/advice appreciated.
I have recently started using the multiple items in tags feature with a
semicolon (";") delimitor. In a few istances this is in the artist field,
and that appears to be working well.
In my genre field however, complete chaos seems to have broken out :). I
can't see any pattern to the behaviour, though it is consistent in that
specific files are similarly tagged after any rescan. It's just the genre
tags are not what I am expecting. I get the following types of behaviour:
- Some files are genre tagged correctly (both with single and multiple tags)
- Some specify no genre at all (even in cases where there is only one value
and no delimiter)
- Others specify just one of the multiple values in the file
Like I said, the bahaviour is consistent in that a specific file will
display the same characteristic (i.e. one of the above) after a rescan.
Some observations:
- In certain cases I have gone completely over the top and have 4 or 5
values in the genre field (separated by semicolons). Maybe there is some
limit I am not aware of???
- One of the genre values is "12'" so I can easily access all 12' singles i
have ripped. Not sure if the ' character could be causing an issue, i.e.
only letters an numbers supported???
- This one is really odd, but when I am rescanning to build the database,
the genres seem to be coming up correctly. I can only explain this with an
example: Several files have "Tech House" as a value. Typically, the actuall
field value would be "House;Tech House;12'". Now, during the actual process
of scanning, if I select "Tech House" from within "Browse Genres" it shows
me an increasing number of files and everything looks OK. But once scanning
is complete, if I select "Tech House", I get just a single song ... the same
one each time. I have looked at the tags with my tag editor and they all
seem fine (but there are a lot of files).
Am running a recent 6.2.2 nightly on windows, but have been having the same
behaviour for some time.
If anyone has any suggestions, even just suggestions of how I migh be able
to troubleshoot, it would be appreciated.
Many thx.
Erm ... sorry for the long post.
Howard.
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