Curtailment of Album Tag by Hyphen

[simoncn]

(26-09-2012 23:52)Budgie Wrote:  Hi Simon,

I can only use minimwatch from openSUSE laptop by turning off firewall but, having done so, have saved the writeAllTags as you instructed above. File is a bit too big to copy here but I can send if you tell me how/where.

Please zip or gzip the file and add it to a forum post here as an attachment. The attachments section is just below where you type your reply. You need to put the filename in the New Attachment box (use the Browse button to make this easier) and then press the Add Attachment button on the right-hand side of the page.

Quote:Meanwhile the file is nothing like what I expected. For example I have 22 Händel opera albums all with album tag in the form "Händel - opera name (conductor's name)" but in the file they are shown as "opera name (conductor's name). The "Händel" - has been ignored. The reverse of what I see on control point which shows Händel but no opera name (the artist tag entry is shewn correctly below). What is going on here?

I'm not sure yet. Perhaps I'll have some ideas when I see the writeAllTags file.

It would be very helpful if you could let me know what is the audio format of your files (FLAC, MP3, ALAC, etc.), and what tagging program you used to enter the tags (exact version and platform).

Quote:Amongst the genres listed I can see the delimiter \\ and commas where I have not yet edited correctly. Is this how files for which I have two genres should appear in this list?

They should appear as two separate tags of the form:
GENRE=value1
GENRE=value2

If they're appearing as:
GENRE=value1\\value2
or:
GENRE=value1,value2
this means the Genre tags in your files aren't in the correct format.