GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 766056
Automatic corrections randomly applied for MP3 files, continuously for MP4 files
Last modified: 2016-05-11 08:53:37 UTC
My MP3 collection is ripped on Linux, using either Banshee or Asunder. For whatever reason, Easytag always detects that automatic corrections need to be applied, and typically highlights the first track of any album, then once I save the corrected MP3 file, everything is fine. However, on MP4 files, the automatic correction always kicks in, even after I've already saved the previous corrections. My questions are the following: Is there a way to disable this behavior? (I've tried everything, nothing worked) If corrections are applied, can easyTag give more detailed information? Why are these necessary to begin with? Why is it that the same CD, ripped and tagged by the same software, will cause EasyTag to detect "automatic" corrections for only 1-2 tracks? I'm using EasyTag 2.4.2 on Ubuntu MATE 16.04 (64-bit). Just realized part of this bug report is a duplicate of 765385
There are currently quite a few reasons why automatic corrections can be applied, and it is difficult to enumerate all those reasons and give meaningful feedback (especially if there are several corrections for a single file). Some of the reasons are to strip leading and trailing spaces in tag fields, changing the versions of ID3 tags to match the settings, upgrading the image format in Vorbis comments, removal of empty but set fields and changing filenames to match the illegal characters setting. There is no way to disable the behaviour, at the moment. The MP4 corrections are, as you mentioned, covered by bug 765385 (and already fixed in master).
Thank you for the quick response. I will close this and mark it as a duplicate. Are there any plans to rebuild 2.4.2 and publish it on the Ubuntu PPA? Currently, there is only a wily package: easytag - 2.4.1-0amigadave1~wily0
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 765385 ***
Universe has 2.4.2-1 from Debian in xenial and yakkety, so I have been slow to update the PPA to 2.4.2. However, I have just uploaded trusty and wily versions. These versions don't have the MP4 fix, yet.