maynardg;332813 Wrote: > I'll try to explain where I have been. I've been using my Squeezebox 3 > since its introduction and have successfully been ripping and using it. > I've ripped about 450 CD's over the past couple of years using CDex and > FLAC Frontend. I have not seen any problems at all, until moving from > 6.3.X to 7.1 last week, though I have no reason to think this is the > cause, it may not be. After rescanning I end up with many scrambled > tags. It is as if database pointers are mixed up. > > What the screen shot shows is a Pat Benetar Greatest Hits album, with > only tracks 5,7,5,8,9,17,20 included. Listed after Album Artist is > "Pat Benetar, Guns N' Roses". After Track Artist I find the same. > > The rest of the tunes are spread among several other versions of the > album when I look at the Artist - Pat Benetar. > > I also find "Pat Benetar, Guns N' Roses" spread throughout the tag data > for many albums regardless of artist. Actually, there are several other > relatively minor examples of things being imixed up, but Pat and Guns N' > Roses is the most common for some reason. > > Last night, I used mp3tag to export the tags to just have a look in > Excel. There seems to be a random sample of maybe 50 albums where the > first two tracks have been corrupted by Title and Artist tags from Guns > N'Roses. The next X tracks have been been corrupted by Pat Benetar. > Interestingly, when this happens the last two tracks of the effected > albums are alwasy correct, regardless of the total number of tunes. > > As I said there are a couple of other similar problems involving mixed > tags. > > Nuts. > > I think maybe my next step is to bread the data into manageable chunks, > export tags, correct tags in Excel, save to a delimited file, and reload > usint Text File to Tag function. > > What do yhou think? > > Perhaps I should go back to 6.3.1?
I think the SC version is fine. SC doesn't have a way to change tags, it can only read them. I think Skunk has the right idea. If you have MP3TAG, why bother with Excel and put another step in that can mess things up. MP3TAG is very powerful, so until you get the hang of it, I would do one CD at a time. Fix the tags with MP3TAG then move on to the next CD with PAT/GnR problems. When you are done, clear and rescan the database. -- iPhone *iPhone* 'Last.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/mephone) Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono Blocks, Vandersteen Quatro, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Bedroom: SB3, NAD C370, Thiel 2.3 Home Office: SB3, Parasound Vamp v.3, VSM-1 Sigs Mobile: SB3, Audioengine A5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51537 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
