I have to say after ripping 3000+ CD's with dBpoweramp, I've never encountered or cared about this kind of error.... -- Scott Sims Mobile: 0403 969 003 Email: [email protected]
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Re: Duplicate Tag (Dave B) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 20:47:45 +0000 > From: Dave B <[email protected]> > To: brianw <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Flac] Duplicate Tag > Message-ID: > < > dm5pr0201mb339897aabd975bcfc38452a1b8...@dm5pr0201mb3398.namprd02.prod.outlook.com > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > Thank for the replay Brian. > > My intent is to remove a ?custom? tag that inadvertently ended up with a > with the space in it?s name (Song Rating) and replace it with a tag with no > space (SongRating). > My working file is WorkingMan.flac > > If I run the metaflac command: > metaflac --show-tag="Song Rating" --show-tag=SongRating WorkingMan.flac > I see the following: > Note there is a duplicate tag (one with a value and one with no value). > Case explained to me that a duplicate tag is not necessarily unwanted. > [cid:fc74d701-df5b-496d-b73b-ce2db2ce3ba6] > From within dBpoweramp I deleted the SONG RATING tag (2nd from the bottom) > [cid:424e371a-639e-4044-9fc7-b8fc7db2c69a] > > Then re-run the same metaflac command > metaflac --show-tag="Song Rating" --show-tag=SongRating WorkingMan.flac > I now see: > [cid:32e3247e-e942-4359-9e8c-0756866324dc] > > That not only removed the tag that I actually wanted to delete, it also > removed the duplicated tag that had no value. > ?I must say I am confused. > So now the question begs to be asked. If there are 2 tags, or more, with > the same name. One with a value and one without, or for that matter they > both have values and you want to remove a specific one. How would I do > that. If I use the metaflac command: > metaflac --remove-tag=SongRating WorkingMan_Copy.flac > it removes both. > [cid:c8bed3b0-23ca-4576-87c3-2e6c6d96d839] > > It seems the deep I go the more confused I am getting. > Thanks > Dave > > ________________________________ > From: brianw <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2025 2:44 PM > To: Dave B <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Flac] Duplicate Tag > > Hi Dave, > > I haven't reviewed metaflac to see whether its algorithm might incorrectly > show a tag twice. It's possible that dBpoweramp appended a tag that already > existed. I imagine that if metaflac says there's an occurrence of the tag > with no value, and another with a value, then that's probably accurate. Can > you show the output of metaflac? That might help verify. > > You could use other tools, like "hexdump -C path/filename" although it > seems that you're on Windows, so you might not have that. Anyway, hexdump > would show the raw file data, and then you could search for the 4-character > tag to see whether it actually appears once or twice in the file. > > I'd be tempted to write a simple tool that only shows FLAC chunks as tag > and size, but it's probably quicker to review metaflac to see whether it is > correct. > > Brian > > > On Jan 19, 2025, at 11:30 AM, Dave B. wrote: > > If I run the metaflac command, "metaflac --show-all-tags > path\filename". There is a tag that is listed twice. Only one of the tags > has a value. This seems to be the case for all of my flac files. I ripped > these with dBpoweramp and this tag was added/defined as a "custom" tag. > > > > I can run the same command using exiftool, "exiftool --tag-all > path\filename" and I only see the single tag, the one that has a value is > the one listed. If I look that this same file with MP3Tag "Extended Tags" > I also only see it listed once, the one with the value. > > > > Does anyone know why it might be listed twice using metaflac. I thought > metaflac would be the better tool since it is the "official" tool, at least > I assume it is. Exiftool will read flac files but will not write to them, > so I wonder if I am getting a complete list from it. And MP3Tag has me > wondering, because of the name. I dont care ? OR WANT ? mp3 tags. I only > want FLAC tags. > > > > Can anyone shed some light on me. > > > > Thanks > > Dave > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/attachments/20250120/b22cc336/attachment.htm > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: image.png > Type: image/png > Size: 89255 bytes > Desc: image.png > URL: < > http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/attachments/20250120/b22cc336/attachment.png > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: image.png > Type: image/png > Size: 14664 bytes > Desc: image.png > URL: < > http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/attachments/20250120/b22cc336/attachment-0001.png > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: image.png > Type: image/png > Size: 18178 bytes > Desc: image.png > URL: < > http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/attachments/20250120/b22cc336/attachment-0002.png > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: image.png > Type: image/png > Size: 39686 bytes > Desc: image.png > URL: < > http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/attachments/20250120/b22cc336/attachment-0003.png > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Flac mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Flac Digest, Vol 117, Issue 4 > ************************************ >
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