Tagging riddle

[DavidHB]

This is a guess, but it might be worth a try, unless you have done it already.

Firstly, select all your music folders in MP3Tag. If you have a large library, the grid may take a while to populate. If you have a very large library, you may have to split it into several batches. Then press F3 to activate the filter, and enter the filter expression 'Composer HAS Mozart' (with caps as shown but without the quotes). This should identify all your tracks with Mozart as Composer.

Select all the tracks listed (Ctrl-A). (If, by any chance, you have any music by Leopold Mozart, you will need to exclude that from the selection.) Then (assuming that you have Composer as one of the tags/fields shown in the MP3Tag editing panel), look at the Composer field. If it says <keep>, there is more than one Composer value in the selected tracks. There will be a drop down arrow which will allow you to select one of the values present. You will wish to select 'Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus', and press Save on the toolbar.

One particular possibility is that you have ended up with multiple Composer tags in some files. In that case, if the values are different, there would certainly be a conflict. You should see in the MP3Tag editing panel that one or more of the drop-down Composer values will look like 'Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart//Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus' or similar. The '//' marks the separation between the tags; if you right-click on your selection and select Extended tags, you will see the different Composer tags presented separately. Simply selecting the correct value in the editing panel drop down menu and saving the change will remove the spurious tag(s).

This approach will ensure, as no other procedure can, that all your Composer values are indeed correct, and not duplicated. If the Composer field shows the correct value at the outset, all the values are already correct and there are no duplicate fields. You can now go on to the next step.

Change the Filter expression to 'ComposerSort HAS Mozart'. If no files then appear in the Filter window, this guess was wrong. If files appear, then they have a ComposerSort Tag which may be conflicting with your composer tag. Select all the files in the filter window, right-click on the selection, and select Extended tags. Change the ComposerSort Tag to <blank> for the whole selection, and save the change.

If you do make changes, you will need to run a MinimServer rescan, and check the log for errors.

If these suggestions don't work, please tell me; it is salutary to learn that one is wrong. If they do work, you can obviously use the same procedure with the Vivaldi files.

David