Dave Dewey;163592 Wrote: > Quoting Mark Lanctot (Mark.Lanctot.2iyujn1166369101 (AT) no-mx (DOT) > forums.slimdevices.com): > > > > > Try 'Mp3tag' (http://www.mp3tag.de/en[/url). > > > > Make sure you're only writing ID3v2, not ID3v1, and remove ID3v1 > tags > > from the files. > > > > See here: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?Mp3tagGuide > > BE VERY CAREFUL. Here is my sad story: > > I followed the instructions using mp3tag above to clean up some GENRE > tags. > I had 1,000 or so tracks with no genre, then while I was at it I went > through and cleaned up thousands more. As I went, I saved the tags, > obviously, and also removed the the v1 tags as described in the wiki. > > Mp3Tag crashed on me a couple times along the way, but seemed ok > otherwise > and always recovered correctly, ie I never had to fix any of the > settings > after a crash, it came back in the same state it went down in. > > So after the tags were clean, I decided to risk a general v1 tag > removal. I > did a 'select all,' then clicked the big red X to remove the v1 tags. > Note > that at this point, mp3tag was setup AND HAD BEEN TESTED WORKING as per > the > instructions, to write the correct tags and remove the v1 tags. As > soon as > I started this large operation, mp3tag threw an exception and had to > be > force-quit. Thinking it might be an anomaly, I started it again, and > had it > remove the v1 tags from my whole library. This time it got through > 8,200 of > my 9,200 tracks before it blew up again. On restarting it and having > it > re-read my tags, I saw to my horror that it had REMOVED ALL TAGS from > 8.200 > tracks. Track names, artist, genre, dates, all completely gone. The > only > ones with valid tags were the 1000 or so it hadn't gotten to before it > crashed. When I checked the preferences, I saw that in the last crash, > the > tag remove preferences had been set back to the default, that is to > remove > all tags from the files. > > So I'm now running the MusicBrainz tagger over my entire collection, to > see > if it will get me anywhere. I'm sick to my stomach over this. Two > days of > work gone. > > Of course I have a backup of about 98% of this stuff (only new stuff > since > last backup I'd need to re-rip) on an external drive that I COULD > restore > from, but I know most people aren't that anal. > > BE CAREFUL and DOUBLE-CHECK your settings if you are going to do > something > as far-reaching as I did. > > dd
I'm very sorry you had this experience as I was the one who initially wrote that guide. That's why I stated to check that everything was working before going ahead. Perhaps I'll bold that text. You did verify that the program was doing what it was supposed to do, it just happened to crash right at the wrong time. So I'm not sure what I could modify in the wiki. I notice it does get somewhat unstable when it works with thousands of files at once. Maybe I should recommend only working with 1000 files at a time or so? -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30690 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
