by SebCohen78 » Sun Jul 05, 2020 12:55 pm
I'M BACK! I'm a Looooooong time MM user, like waaaaaaay back.....and damn it feels good to be back.
BUT I'm having trouble with ID tagging that wasn't present the last time I was using it. I'm worried MM somehow is corrupting my ID3 info.
What I've done is this. I've migrated my old MP3 collection from a Vista system to Win10. Straight copy paste via external HDD to new system. I've used iTunes until now and I didn't want Apple potentially corrupting my tags somehow. So I on purpose lost some edits I made to the files in iTunes, which I'm redoing now. Mainly upgrading cover art to better resolution.
I've specifically noticed this behavior :
1- Multiple cover art duplicates when opening "Properties". It's the same cover, but it's got a duplicate without "Cover (front)" designation. I have some cover-art inside the folders, not always, but does it auto pick-up this?
2- Edits to cover art wont "stick". Let's say I open, remove old cover, add new cover and "apply to all files....". When I check, some wont have the new one saved.
3- I have some files where I can continuously delete cover art under properties (seems more prevalent in FLAC files), but they wont go away. They reappear while I delete. No changes will be saved, no error messages.
4- I have some mp3's that wont appear in MM, that I've ripped with MM before on old system, worked before. Files are in the folder, but MM won't add them and I can't "open with" via Files. BUT Groove will play them.
5- This one specific CD I just ripped again, to a separate folder. Everything worked, all files would appear and be playable. Deleted old folder, removed from database, moved (click & drop in MM) new folder into library. Now, some files didn't get moved. Half are stuck in the ripping folder. I removed the whole album from MM database, moved the rest via Files. Now MM wont add or play some of the files, those that got stuck. The files that show, will have some info missing from the ID3 tag. The CD is "Ben Harper & The Blind Boys of Alabama - There Will be a Light" but some files just show "Ben Harper & The Blind Boys of - There Will be a Light" after the move in the ID3 fields. Which I find odd.
As I said, these files where all OK before, they were "unadulterated" by MacOS or other mediaplayers. Now its acting funky all of a sudden.
I can edit the files I have problems with Mp3Tag (v. 3.01) and it sticks, and is updated in MM afterwards.
I don't get any error messages.
Not as important :
I've also noticed some "slowness" in general :
6- Sometimes it takes a few seconds for album art to appear, and I see the generic one for a second before it updates. Both with "Now Playing" and "Selected".
7- MM hangs for a second or so, for no reason, when doing things.
8- It also, but not often, hangs for longer, unsure what I do then to make that happen....
9- Minimizing MM to taskbar, then opening it again, it's very often VERY slow to "redraw" and it's done in a specific order, not at once. Playback not affected.
I went from a Windows Vista, Core Duo something sumtin, 8GB, 5400 HDD to a Windows 10 Pro (1904) Xeon, 32GB, SSD bla bla bla...so it shouldn't be slower.
It is same size database approx. 12.000 files, 100GB.
Still, it feels good to be back....
I'M BACK! I'm a Looooooong time MM user, like waaaaaaay back.....and damn it feels good to be back.
BUT I'm having trouble with ID tagging that wasn't present the last time I was using it. I'm worried MM somehow is corrupting my ID3 info.
What I've done is this. I've migrated my old MP3 collection from a Vista system to Win10. Straight copy paste via external HDD to new system. I've used iTunes until now and I didn't want Apple potentially corrupting my tags somehow. So I on purpose lost some edits I made to the files in iTunes, which I'm redoing now. Mainly upgrading cover art to better resolution.
I've specifically noticed this behavior :
1- Multiple cover art duplicates when opening "Properties". It's the same cover, but it's got a duplicate without "Cover (front)" designation. I have some cover-art inside the folders, not always, but does it auto pick-up this?
2- Edits to cover art wont "stick". Let's say I open, remove old cover, add new cover and "apply to all files....". When I check, some wont have the new one saved.
3- I have some files where I can continuously delete cover art under properties (seems more prevalent in FLAC files), but they wont go away. They reappear while I delete. No changes will be saved, no error messages.
4- I have some mp3's that wont appear in MM, that I've ripped with MM before on old system, worked before. Files are in the folder, but MM won't add them and I can't "open with" via Files. BUT Groove will play them.
5- This one specific CD I just ripped again, to a separate folder. Everything worked, all files would appear and be playable. Deleted old folder, removed from database, moved (click & drop in MM) new folder into library. Now, some files didn't get moved. Half are stuck in the ripping folder. I removed the whole album from MM database, moved the rest via Files. Now MM wont add or play some of the files, those that got stuck. The files that show, will have some info missing from the ID3 tag. The CD is "Ben Harper & The Blind Boys of Alabama - There Will be a Light" but some files just show "Ben Harper & The Blind Boys of - There Will be a Light" after the move in the ID3 fields. Which I find odd.
As I said, these files where all OK before, they were "unadulterated" by MacOS or other mediaplayers. Now its acting funky all of a sudden.
I can edit the files I have problems with Mp3Tag (v. 3.01) and it sticks, and is updated in MM afterwards.
I don't get any error messages.
Not as important :
I've also noticed some "slowness" in general :
6- Sometimes it takes a few seconds for album art to appear, and I see the generic one for a second before it updates. Both with "Now Playing" and "Selected".
7- MM hangs for a second or so, for no reason, when doing things.
8- It also, but not often, hangs for longer, unsure what I do then to make that happen....
9- Minimizing MM to taskbar, then opening it again, it's very often VERY slow to "redraw" and it's done in a specific order, not at once. Playback not affected.
I went from a Windows Vista, Core Duo something sumtin, 8GB, 5400 HDD to a Windows 10 Pro (1904) Xeon, 32GB, SSD bla bla bla...so it shouldn't be slower.
It is same size database approx. 12.000 files, 100GB.
Still, it feels good to be back....