Hi! Someone knows why, when exporting to Mp3 and after entering tag details, the file year always comes as duplicate. It’s maybe just a glitch, but you will see… I don’t know if the same thing happens when exporting to other formats. I haven’t had the time to check this out…
This is a known and logged issue, see:
opened 09:08AM - 05 Sep 21 UTC
closed 09:48AM - 07 Jul 22 UTC
bug
P3
Metadata
Won't fix
**Describe the bug**
Audacity writes double Year and Comment metadata. This do… es not show in Audacity - but does in other apps (MP3Tag and other player apps)
**To Reproduce**
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
1. purge Audacity settings folder (ensures cleared matadata)
2. launch Audacity
3. Edit>Metadata
4. Observe: empty metadata fields
5. record a short piece of audio
6. File>Export>Export as MP3
7. fill in the metadata fields (see example below)
8. press OK to make the export
9. exit Audacity
10. relaunch Audacity
11. Edit metadata
12. Observe: metadata fields are empty (expected behavior)
13. Import the MP3 fole from stes 6-8
14. Edit>Metadata
15. Observe: metadata is same as at Step 7 - correct single entries (see image below)
16. File>Export>Export as MP3 (to a modified filename)
17. Observe: on Export the metatdata is the same as at steps 7 and 15
18. Launch Mp3tag
19. Examine the two MP3 files
20. Observe: both the year filed and the comment fieldd entries are doubled-up, separated with a double backslash, for both MP3 files (see image below)
**Expected behavior**
Metadata to be handled correctly and consistently.
**Screenshots**
Step 7 - metadata entered in Audacity
Step 15 - metadata drom imported MP3
Step 20 - MP3tag shows double-year and double-comment
**Additional information (please complete the following information):**
- OS: Windows 10 - but assume all platforms
- Version Audacity 3.0.4 and latest alpha 3.1.0
**Additional context**
a) This was originally logged on GitHub by user cubetroniv in December 2019:
year tag gets doubled #401
b) It was logged on Bugzilla (which had primacy for bug tracking at the time as P3 bug 2291
Bug 2291 - Metadata: Exported MP3 shows double year in MP3tag metadata
https://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2291
c) Both these logs were closed because at the time I could not reproduce this
d) The isue resurfaced on the Forum:
https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=116661#p434345
e) This led me to retest - and this time I could find a way to reproduce the users' complaints - so I logged this fresh bug to replace the prvious two logs
Audacity’s handling of metadata has several problems - when I converted my LPs and tapes I never bother with metadata management in Audacity, preferring to do that instead with iTunes.
See: Improved metadata handling in Audacity · Issue #1464 · audacity/audacity · GitHub
Peter.
system
August 16, 2023, 10:28pm
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