MP3 - Album is empty but Squeezebox Server display the deleted Album

[Shepardos]

Hi,

I don’t know what this issue is. On some MP3 but I also saw this on FLAC that if I delete the “Album” value than SqueezeBox Server get the “old deleted” info’s from the file.

I thought it is a issue with MP3v1 tag and I deleted this under the preferences form Jaikoz but this is was not the problem.

If I change the album to any value than my SqueezeBox Server read the new one but as soon as I delete the value it will show me the old Album Value!

1.) Can somebody help me what this could be?
2.) How can I delete ALL VALUES from a MP3/FLAC file?

Thanks
Cheers
Shepardos

[pschonmann]

Tools that erase all tags

http://www.headstrong.de/software-id3kill.shtml

[markfaine]

I don’t know about mp3 but you are probably correct. It is most likely a different version of tag data left over. Jaikoz can fix this - look on the save tab of preferences. Also, do a full rescan of the database just to be sure.

Also, with flac files you can do this:

metaflac --export-tags-to=./tags.txt filename.flac

Then edit the tags.txt file and do this

metaflac --remove-all-tags filename.flac

metaflac --import-tags-from=./tags.txt filename.flac

I’ve also noticed that with squeezecenter if you import a cuesheet into a single album image flac file but there are no other tags, it will read the values from the single cuesheet tag:

metaflac --set-tag-from-file="CUESHEET=./cuesheet.cue" --no-utf8-convert filename.flac

Hope that helps. I didn’t check so I might have flubbed the options - sometimes I get them wrong. Use metaflac --help to check.

[Shepardos]

The problem here is that I have still the MP3 APE tags left.

How can I delete all formats (idv1, ape) and only leave idv2 on the files?

[markfaine]

[quote=Shepardos]The problem here is that I have still the MP3 APE tags left.

How can I delete all formats (idv1, ape) and only leave idv2 on the files?[/quote]

Use a tag editor (nearly any will do) and remove the apev2 tags. Then re-tag the files with Jaikoz (for best results). Try one that says it supports all of the tag types. EasyTag, MP3tag, Tag&Rename, etc.

If you using Linux I’d be glad to recommend some ways to strip the APE tags but I’m not familiar with APE command line tools at the moment and not inclined to be unless there is a need.

One sure-fire, bullet proof solution would be to re-rip from CD. This is also reminds me of another benefit of keeping lossless audio. If you had lossless audio files you could just go back to .wav files and tags would be gone.