Question about tagging music with mp3tag

[cw-kid 192]

Hi

 

I have a compilation album called "12" 80s Pop"

 

Its genre in Emby is set as Folk which is not correct. 

 

 

The genre set in the mp3 files tags is "80's Pop"

 

If I edit the album in Emby and delete the folk genre and add the correct genre and save. It is now showing as the genre "80's Pop".

But where it got folk from in the first place I have no idea? 

 

MP3TAG

 

 

 

Thanks

 

 

[Luke 42081]

i'm not sure either, but if you can zip up the album i'll test it out. thanks.

[cw-kid 192]

rar file here. Its 3 CD's though. 

 

Thank you.

 

[cw-kid 192]

Hi

 

Just found another one:

 

Duran Duran Arena as genre "Folk"

 

Its also currently not identified the album for some reason. 

 

 

The genre in the mp3 tags is "80's Pop" again.

 

 

You could probably say "80's Pop" is the incorrect genre as its more of a genre I made up when tagging my files. 

 

Perhaps Emby doesn't like the character ' in the genre name and that is why its not reading it and for some reason and setting them to folk maybe ?

 

Thanks

[Luke 42081]

This came from ffprobe (see near the bottom).

 

[cw-kid 192]

Yeah that's weird it says genre 'folk'

 

But my tags in mp3tag say "80's Pop"  

[cw-kid 192]

Also native Kodi reads the tags correctly as "80's Pop" how strange. 

[Luke 42081]

The file could have multiple tags embedded and your tagging software may only be updating one of them.

[cw-kid 192]

So now I am confused LOL. Any idea why ffprobe is reading them differently ? 

[cw-kid 192]

We posted at the same time! 

 

Here are the extended tags in mp3tag. 

 

I wasn't aware you could have more than one genre tag. 

 

[Luke 42081]

there are multiple versions of id3 tags and they could all be embedded into the file to support lots of different programs. so for example, ffprobe could be reading the v1 tags and mp3tag the v3 tags, or vice versa. you might be able to configure mp3tag to write all of them.

[cw-kid 192]

there are multiple versions of id3 tags and they could all be embedded into the file to support lots of different programs. so for example, ffprobe could be reading the v1 tags and mp3tag the v3 tags, or vice versa. you might be able to configure mp3tag to write all of them.

 

I see, I think.  

 

Mp3tag is reporting that the tags for this Arena album are all ID3v2.3 (ID3v1 ID3v2.3)

[cw-kid 192]

Here are the write options in mp3tag. 

 

 

 

I don't know how to use ffprobe so will have to look in to that first, or I won't know if I've fixed the problem or not by messing around with the tag write options. 

 

[cw-kid 192]

OK this is interesting. I just changed all the Duran Duran albums genre tags from "80's Pop" to "New Wave" and I refreshed an album in Emby. 

 

Now it says genre is folk and new wave for that album. 

 

So two problems here, Emby doesn't seem to like the character ' in the genre tag. 

 

And I have some tag issues with this folk genre coming from somewhere. 

Edited February 8, 2017 by cw-kid

[cw-kid 192]

OK I have fixed it.

 

As a complete guess I just checked APEv2 in the MP3TAG tag options and saved the tags again for Arena. 

 

After refreshing the album in Emby it now only shows "New Wave" as the genre and "Folk" has gone. 

[Luke 42081]

Well done.

[cw-kid 192]

Well done.

 

Thanks for the pointers. 

 

I think I will look at all the albums in the "80's Pop" genre and put them into other genres also.