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Not Saving Years / Artwork Copy Paste (v2.4.0)

#1

My music collection is organised by using the year of album, therefore, I make sure while tagging that all the files have year tags.
Because not all the entries in Musicbrainz include a year, I sometimes need to manually enter this information.
Today, I loaded some of the files I tagged yesterday, only to notice that the manually entered years have vanished! :shock:

As a test, I re-entered the year for one album, saved, closed and reloaded the files; unfortunately, the year information came up blank again.
I’m saving as ID3v23 (the files include BPM and gain information tagged via Jriver Media Center 12)

Edited to add… As a test, I cleared all the tag information including BPM etc. from one album, then after updating via Musicbrainz, I manually added the year and saved; upon reloading, the year was missing like before.

The other issue I’m experiencing, is after adding artwork manually, I use ‘ctrl-c’ to copy the artwork field, so that I can paste the artwork onto the other files; unfortunately, it will not copy the newly added artwork field until you refocus the field (if you do not refocus, ‘ctrl-c’ will not work, and when you use ‘ctrl’v’ you can inadvertently end up pasting artwork from an earlier album).

Thank you in advance.

#2

I am having a similar problem with artwork in 2.4.0. Paste all values is not working.

-Mark

#3

Sorry Im having problems replicating either of these problems. Perhaps you could send me a file with the missing year field so I can see if it is embeeded in the file somewhere, certaibnly send your jaikoz log files.

For the artwork problem what OSX are you sing and can you rexplain exactly how you add the artwork, conisder every mouse click/keyboard press and the order you do them.

#4

Thank you for looking into this; after trying a few things, I now believe the first issue was caused by me adding album artwork that was 200 dpi.

To replicate:

  1. Remove artwork and year from any mp3.
  2. Save.
  3. Add the following 200 dpi artwork - http://www.alittledigital.com/catalog/images/flwrlace600x.jpg (a random pic I found on the net)
  4. Add a year.
  5. Save.
  6. Reload and the year will have vanished.

Also, sometimes 200 dpi artwork does not save correctly, as an example: if you add the following artwork and then reload - http://www.lizmeyer.com/images/cds/The%20Storm%20-200dpi%20-%203x3.jpg (another random pic I found).

While on the subject of artwork, could you please look at any of the files located on http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/sample.html as the tag artwork does not load for me.

May I also ask how artwork is handled by Jaikoz:-

  1. What size and resolution is the auto added artwork?
  2. If artwork is manually added, does the size and resolution get adjusted; ie. if I add an 1000x1000 1mb jpeg, does this get scaled down by Jaikoz?
#5

[quote=Sunee]Thank you for looking into this; after trying a few things, I now believe the first issue was caused by me adding album artwork that was 200 dpi.
[/quote]
hmm, Ive tried this on OSX and Windows with 2.4.0 and cannot get the to problem occur, what os are you using - it would help if you could send me a problem mp3 (is it an mp3) before and after adding the artwork.

[quote=Sunee]
if you add the following artwork and then reload - http://www.lizmeyer.com/images/cds/The%20Storm%20-200dpi%20-%203x3.jpg [/quote]
Again, I can’t see any problem with this, I could do with a file with image added.

Ok, replicated thanks I’ll look into this further.

It depends on the source, it isnt currently adjusted by Jaikoz.

[quote=Sunee]
2) If artwork is manually added, does the size and resolution get adjusted; ie. if I add an 1000x1000 1mb jpeg, does this get scaled down by Jaikoz?[/quote]
No, not yet.

#6

Ok all the files in http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/sample.html do not actually contain any image data they just contain an empty image field, I dont know what softare they used to tag this but its not very good.

But Jaikoz shouldn’t give an error when you do View Artwork Fullsize, this is now fixed for next release.