ID3 vs MMD Priorities

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Torben,
I wonder, have you (in Build 17) changed the priorities for ID3 Tags and Meta Files ? Another system I use for library management has a habit of putting tabs (or lots of spaces) into the ID3 Comment field - when these load in mAirList, the playlist item is twice the size due to the Comments field showing.

I remember reading that an MMD file takes priority, but it doesn’t appear to in this case. I tried saving removing the blank Comment spaces and saving to Meta File, dropped the item back into the Playlist - and the Comment field was still showing, suggesting that it’s reading the ID3 first…

Naturally, I’m going to ask the author of the other software to see if they can stop writing to blank fields :wink:

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Hm, the problem is:

  • First, the ID3 tag is read.
  • Then the MMD is read, overwriting anything imported the ID3 tag.
  • However, when there is a comment in the ID3, but no comment in the MMD, the ID3 comment doesn’t get erased.

Perhaps it might be better to not try to read the ID3 tag at all in case an MMD was detected.

By the way, you can tell mAirList not to import the ID3 comment field, there’s an option in the misc. config.

Torben

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Thanks for that… I do use the Comments, but always via MMD. The option says “Import Description” - I took that to mean ALL ID3 data…

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Yes, but MMD is not ID3. The option explicitly refers to file tags.