1424: Synchronizing silently fails on broken tags

[M3wThr33]

No clue when this came up, but I uploaded my music to the Amazon Cloud and noticed that my album artist tag wasn't correct on many albums.
So I synced, cleaned my library, etc., and it still happened.
The Files to Edit->Unsyncronized Tags will still show them after I Ctrl+S the files.

I downloaded Foobar to inspect the files and sure enough, it's not changed.
I even tried change the artist name and it doesn't update the tag.

So I went in Foobar to change the tag THERE and I get the error of:

Could not update tags (Unsupported format or corrupted file) on:
"G:\MEDIA\MUSIC\Albums\Various\Guitar Hero 5\Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music.mp3"

So Media Monkey is silently failing on corrupt mp3 tags. And it's the ONLY PROGRAM I use to edit tags. (Although iTunes MAY be to blame... it meddles with things. Or Windows Media CENTER)
I removed all the tags with Mp3tag and they look like they were added back in appropriately.

Additionally, I went with Foobar to actually DELETE all the tags, and had MM recreate them. And only the files that worked before had tags put back on. Bizarre.

I installed Mp3tag and it says it has !BAD ID3v2.

I'm guessing an option needs to be put in to super-scrub, remove the ID3 tag and re-build it from scratch...

[Lowlander]

Tools > Advanced Tag Management > Clean ID3v1 and v2 Tags.

As for warning user that would be a good idea, I updated a note about it here: http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view. ... 774#c27274

[M3wThr33]

I'm about to do that now. But knowing they were broken in the first place would be better.

But first I'm running the Album Art Tagger to extract all my embedded Album Art, THEN clean the tag, THEN put the art back in. (Also, that'd be a nice feature. Or at least a WARNING that clean the tags deletes the art and lyrics. Not that I didn't know, but some might not)