OK, that is the difference.
If you select menu 'Tools > Rip audio CD' then the data is lost.
But if you right-click the CD node > Rip audio CD... then the data is preserved.

So I re-opened https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=15680 to fix this.

EDIT: Will be fixed in 2197

Ludek:
I have followed exactly the same steps. But the results are different, as follows:

First of all, I tried two tracks.
Step 1: The same results as yours, i.e. the property Composer is "registered" to both tracks.
Step 2: OK, pop-ups the window "Convert files". This time, for my first time, I did excatly what you did: picked it right-clicking in the CD node.
Step 3: Select Properties over the tracks, and Composer data was there.

Then I tried what is for me the ussual way, and failed:
Step 1: The same
Step 2: I picked "Rip Audio CD" from the Tools menu.
Step 3: Select properties over the two tracks I want to Rip in Convert Files window, ... and Composer data was NOT there.
Step 4: I went back to the original list of tracks of the CD, and Composer was still there for the two tracks.
Step 5: Went back again to Convert Files, picking Rip Audio CD again from Tools menu, and selected just one of the two tracks and entered "Composer" name for that track only.
Step 6: Did the ripping.

The result is that only the track edited in Step 5 arrives to the DB with the Composer tag filled.

So, it is something with the Tools/Rip Audio CD path for the same function.

Hope this will help.

It works for me to preserve all the values edited before ripping (tested the newest beta build 2194).

1) inserted the CD, focused the node and edited the composer of track "Caramel Prisoner" to "my composer" :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wih4u1hnpis3i ... 0.png?dl=0
2) right-clicked the CD node in the tree and selected "Rip audio CD" like this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3d04kn9h03u2j ... 6.png?dl=0
3) In the "Convert files" dialog I right-licked the track again and selected "Properties" to ensure that the "my composer" value is still there:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2vivlnl5hiqao ... 4.png?dl=0
and it is
4) clicked [Cancel] on Properties and [OK] to rip the tracks
5) verified that the ripped track has the "my composer" value in the composer field:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l14scre01yvhr ... 0.png?dl=0

So I am not seeing the issue, but maybe you are doing something differently? Could you follow my steps above and tell me in which step the "my composer" value gets lost?

Yes, I am sorry to say, but the same issue is happening with the last and previous releases. Still the functionality is not the same that with MM4, as some, say, criticall properties get lost when editing before ripping. The most important one that is missing is "Composer", because with Classical Music, for instance, it determines where in the DB the tracks will end. Of course, everything can be solved later, but this chance of editing previously the Properties, helps a lot when some other issues creates lost tracks.

Hi,
this has been already fixed in 2186 to the same level as in MM4, see: https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=15680

Are you still seeing the issue with the newest build?

To be fixed in MM5 (at least to to the same level as in MM4).

Please, gents: don't forget this feature.

I see, when the CD isn't in library then it stores just the basic metadata like title/album/artist/genre into the CDPlayer.ini file.
To be fixed as https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=15680

Workaround is (as Peke suggested) to add the files into the library before ripping (to keep all the metadata).

EDIT: Note that in MM4 also the custom fields were preserved when the tracks were edited immediately before ripping (because the same memory instances of the tracks were used for ripping).
To be fixed in MM5 (at least to to the same level as in MM4).

Sorry to say, Peke, but I still cannot achive the same results. Maybe the problem is the steps I follow (the same since MM 3):

1) Insert CD
2) Get some tags from freedb
3) Select the files in the track list and edit properties adding most of what I need (ie. Composer, Date, Original Date, Involved People, Artists, Publisher, and some times, Genre)
4) Do the ripping
5) Eject the CD
6) When inspecting the created "flac" files the following fields are not included:
Composer
Original date
Publisher,
Involved people,
othe Custom fields.

It is interesting to see, and I will try, that you "add scaned files to the library", then "eject the CD" (step 2, 3 & 4) before editing Properties, and then you insert the CD again and do the ripping (step 5 & 6). I have never done things in that order. It seems to me that you are first adding to the library the .cda files and then you are doing a "Convert Format" function? In my case, I use the "Rip Audio CD" function.

Many thanks

Hi,
I just tested and all Metadata was preserved in destination RIP.

Here are teh steps I tried:
1. Insert CD in Drive
2. Add Rescan files to Library
3. Ejected CD
4. Edited Info even added album art
5. Inserted CD
6. It got recognized and I proceed with RIP (FLAC in my case)
7. Checked Flac Files in other apps (just in case) and all Metadata were in file tags.

Happy to see some improvement on this subject with compilation 5.0.0.2185. More properties can be edited before ripping. But, still, most of them are not transfered to the created files such as: Publisher, Involved people, Original date, etc.

It would be of great use to have the chance of editing properties before ripping, because you can manage better the location, data and general administration of the newly created files in your collection.

Please, don't forget this issue.

Peke wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 9:10 pm Hi,
Can you please confirm that same thing Happen If you scan CD into MM5 Library, then edit properties and only then you do a RIP?

Yes, Peke. That is excatly the issue. After MM5 has scanned the CD and you edit the properties, and then you do the Rip, the only property that is registered in the newly created track files is "Genre". For instance, if in the editing process (before the rip starts) you add "Composer", "Artist", "Director", etc., these fields become empty after the ripping.

I haven't tested myself yet, but added to my TODO list as https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=15680 and going to look into it shortly.

Hi,
Can you please confirm that same thing Happen If you scan CD into MM5 Library, then edit properties and only then you do a RIP?

Please, take a look to this subject.