![]() Most other apps I've tried have been using v2.3 for years.Ī good freeware app to use to look at tags is I've sent several requests to Apple that v2.3 be used, or at least give an option to choose the default ID3 version. iTunes is the only app I know that defaults to v2.2. You might be surprised when you take a look. ![]() +Because my collection spans many years, it is likely a mishmash of different tag versions.+ Still wondering about the album artwork question, if I back up the iTunes album artwork, delete my library, reload it from the new drive location, and then restore the backed up iTunes album artwork folder, will this work? Will iTunes care if the file location is different? What I'm going to do is try to apply this fix to one album tonight, and if it works, apply it to the rest of the collection. I think the explanation is plausible as it would explain the symptoms I'm seeing, and MediaMonkey is one of the applications in question. Your post is the first time I have felt like I had found a rational explanation for the tag behaviour I was seeing. I had read that fix somewhere else, but it was not accompanied with anything that explained WHY this worked, and I was apprehensive to apply a "mystery fix" to such a large collection. ![]() Turingtest2, thanks so much for your insight. Because my collection spans many years, it is likely a mishmash of different tag versions. Katrina, yes as specified above I am referring to non-proprietary tags only. I'm just really worried that after moving my collection and reloading into iTunes I will need to re-tag and re-load album artwork all over again. Right now my collection is on F:, and loaded into iTunes, but I want to get rid of that drive as it is IDE and too small, and store my collection on H: instead. So I am hoping there is some way I can force iTunes to save the current state of tag info to the files!Ībout the 2 drives, it's simple. ![]() Regardless of how it is supposed to work or what the explanation is, the situation now stands that my tags display perfectly in iTunes but are not all saved to the files perfectly. I don't understand it either, but from research I have done online, it may have something to do with an iTunes glitch relating to the ID3 tag version. But yes, strangely enough, even though the tags show up properly in iTunes, they do not show up properly in other players, and don't show up properly in iTunes if I remove the album, copy the album to the second drive, and load it back into iTunes (only for a portion of the files, but with the size of my collection this would still be time consuming to fix). I also thought it could have something to do with read only, so I made sure that the files were not read only. Yes, they are mp3 files, and yes, I had assumed what you told me, that changes made in iTunes would be made to the mp3 files. Lastly, if neither of the above are possible, is there an easy way to backup the iTunes database so that all my tags and artwork are present once I remove the current drive and re-load my collection into iTunes from the new drive? Will the change of path prevent me from being able to backup the database? I've also been disappointed to find out that when adding album artwork, iTunes does not actually save the artwork to the ID3 tags as I assumed. So my question is this: is there some way to force iTunes to save the data that is currently displayed in iTunes to the ID3 tags? It seems iTunes is perhaps storing this tag info in some kind of internal database? To be specific I am not talking about meta-data like ratings and number of times played. If I load them into another application or reload them into iTunes from the new drive, not all the tag changes I made in iTunes are showing up. However, in the process I've noticed that not all the changes that I made to the tags have actually saved to the tags themselves, even though they continue to display correctly in iTunes. Now I want to back up the entire drive (F: drive, I keep my music on a separate drive) to a new hard drive (H: drive). I just spent a very (very) long time going through my entire music collection making sure all album art is present and all tags are corrected to my preferences. ![]()
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