I’m at work now, but I’ll try that as soon as I get home. Thanks!
The particular files I sent were quickly found this morning when I read your response, and I’m not sure that they would illustrate the exact symptom I described - I just found some that looked blank in iTunes and forwarded them. But I do know for sure that I’ve seen that behavior. I’ll see if I can’t find another one that duplicates that behavior, and forward it to you when I do.
I have to say, that is weird. It would seem that if the PRIV and MCDI fields are what’s confusing iTunes then waving the Tag&Rename over those files would NOT fix it, unless it did so by deleting those fields, and then, as you say, if Jaikoz doesn’t write them, why did those files break again after Jaikoz was waved over them again…? Of course this assumes that those other files were broken for the same reason as the one I sent you.
An idea for a future release might be to add another checkbox in the iTunes section to not write (and even delete pre-existing) tags that are known to cause iTunes issues. I can see how that might be somewhat dicey, since the intent of ID3 is that data that isn’t recognized by a program should just be ignored… Not wiped out.
Anyway, as I go through my collection (I’m doing a significant rearrangement of my collection as you may have guessed), I’ll try to find another file that has the problem I originally described, and send it to you. There is, of course, the possibility that I was just delusional and tired at 4 o’clock in the morning But I don’t think so. All and all this is shaping up to be a big (and sometimes frustrating!) job - but Jaikoz has already become my preferred tool (over Tag&Rename) not only because of the MusicBrainz integration (which is sometimes of questionable value, if I’m honest) but also because of the ‘spreadsheet’ metaphor. If you’d asked me a year ago, I’d have said I don’t like the idea of that metaphor, but having used if for a few weeks now, I have to say it’s very efficient.
Either way, it’s helpful to know which fields are the likely offenders, so that I can just wipe them out in a wholesale fashion. I’m not intentionally using them, and certainly won’t miss them.
Thanks,
Jason