Musicmatch wav tag support

sunspot42 · Post by **sunspot42** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 5:15 am

Ran a quick test tonight - no more crashes. Seems to work, but I do have some funny tags out there now. Not many - just a small percentage. I need to look at the same files in MMJB and see what they look like and why they might not be coming over correctly. Will keep you posted. Excellent work though - this is nothing I couldn't fix manually if I had to.

Post by **Peke** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 2:36 pm

Hmmm. I'm interested in those Strange tags So that I can Explain.
If You mean About Tempo and other MusicMatch Related things that Music Match Writes in Comment Tag Field, it is not bug Wave Format Tag Do not support Tempo and Mood I do not Crop It from tag but just leave as is for you, so that you can add them in MM library Manualy. Maybe in future it will be implemented in WAVE Tagger.

sunspot · Post by **sunspot** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:00 pm

No, it's not those oddball tags like Tempo - I don't think I've ever used any of those. It's tags for stuff like Name and Artist that are coming across wrong / blank for at least a few artists and/or tracks. A lot of them are FLAC files I converted to .WAV's using Media Monkey awhile back, and that I thought I'd cleaned up the .WAV tags on using Music Match Jukebox. But maybe I never did, so I need to research that. Maybe they didn't have MMJB format .WAV tags at all, and MMJB was displaying the track and artist names based off their filenames and directory location or some other set of parameters. I think MMJB will do that for .wavs when there aren't any tags. The weird thing is, Media Monkey is showing the old FLAC tags for those files. I know MMJB wasn't showing those, so I'm wondering where they were coming from. Does Media Monkey tag .WAV files in a way different from the way MMJB tags them? Could there be 2 sets of tags on those files?

It's nothing I couldn't clean up by hand, it's just weird. Most of the files looked pretty good when I reviewed them last night, but I won't have time to really look at them until the middle of next week (sorry!).

Then I need to decide what format I'm gonna use going forward. I'd like to convert it all to FLAC, but iTunes doesn't support it, yet. I could convert to FLAC and then convert those FLACs to Apple Lossless for use with iTunes and my iPod, but I'd need to maintain two sets of files or I'd need to start using iTunes exclusively and switch everything to Apple Lossless. I like iTunes alright, but I think I prefer both Music Match and Media Monkey.

Decisions, decisions. But at least thanks to you guys I have options now I didn't have before. THANK YOU!!!

Post by **Peke** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:57 pm

Mediamonkey Saves Tag info in WAV by the RIFF Standard tag and MMJB user Changed ID3 Format which is implemented by some of apps as an easy integration and RIFF Standard do not make warnings about that.
Yes there is Possibility that there is two sets of Tags and it is because MMJB do not folow the standards and writes its own tags.

sunspot · Post by **sunspot** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:12 pm

Peke wrote:Mediamonkey Saves Tag info in WAV by the RIFF Standard tag and MMJB user Changed ID3 Format which is implemented by some of apps as an easy integration and RIFF Standard do not make warnings about that.
Yes there is Possibility that there is two sets of Tags and it is because MMJB do not folow the standards and writes its own tags.

That's probably it then. No biggie. I'm sure I can fix it by hand. Maybe I can delete the tags in Media Monkey on the problem files, and then clear and reload the library. Might work. I'll give it a try.

sunspot · Post by **sunspot** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 11:56 pm

Found one thing tonight it's not grabbing from the MMJB tags - the year.

sunspot · Post by **sunspot** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:45 pm

Media Monkey reads the track #, album, artist and title correctly, along with the genre, from Music Match .wav tags, but it's not picking up the year. Any chance that could be corrected?

Thanks!

Post by **Peke** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:50 am

Could you compress (to be as small as possible) that one and send it like last time?
That helped a lot last time.

sunspot · Post by **sunspot** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:37 am

Peke -

Just sent you an e-mail with a link to a 700Kb sample file.

Thanks for looking at this!

sunspot · Post by **sunspot** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 5:09 pm

Just realized the link I sent you won't work. I'll send another one to the e-mail address listed on your website.

sunspot · Post by **sunspot** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:01 am

OK, that e-mail address didn't work either, so I sent a PM via this forum.

Post by **Peke** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:49 pm

Again THX for sending it.
I fixed it and will be in MM new version.
If you find anything new (I hope not) just contact me.

sunspot · Post by **sunspot** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:17 pm

Peke wrote:Again THX for sending it.
I fixed it and will be in MM new version.
If you find anything new (I hope not) just contact me.

That's great news, Peke. Any word on when the next version is due out?

Thanks as always!

Post by **Peke** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 2:33 am

no problem.
I hope soon

heldon · Post by **heldon** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:15 am

just downloaded media monkey this weekend. i am converting a very large library of wav files all ripped in music match over to flac files in media monkey, and i am experiencing the same problem. certain files freeze media monkey and i have to force quit. anyway, looking forward to the fix. awesome to find a program that will read the music match meta data.

Musicmatch wav tag support

Seems to work

MMJB .wav tags

MMJB .wav tags

One thing it's missing

MMJB .wav tags - year not being read

MMJB Sample File

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e-mail

New Version

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