Efficiency of Removing Tags (Extended Tags vs Remove Fields)
I've been removing the "Album Artist" field from all my tags because I don't like the way some devices use it and some don't. So in order to not have any inconsistencies, I just decided to remove it...
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Efficiency of Removing Tags (Extended Tags vs Remove Fields)
I would say that ALBUMARTIST is a bad example for a field to be removed. I cannot substantiate any problems in respect to ShatteredGlass: the way some devices use it and some don't. as any decent...
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Efficiency of Removing Tags (Extended Tags vs Remove Fields)
ShatteredGlass: I'm just curious on what's going on in the background that makes one method take longer than the other, when both seem to provide the same results. In addition to what ohrenkino...
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Efficiency of Removing Tags (Extended Tags vs Remove Fields)
ohrenkino: any decent player uses ALBUMARTIST to group tracks for an ALBUM together if there are several different names in ARTIST. Otherwise you get 1 album per artist - which is often undesirable....
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You are right: I also see a detectable speed difference. Any process with actions is faster. The GUI based processes (Converter, Tag Panel, Extended Tags Dialogue) take the same amount of time. Read...
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ShatteredGlass: not a single one uses the "AlbumArtist" field when displaying tracks You are free to do with your files whatever you want. I just wanted to add my three pence to mention what I have...
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ohrenkino: You are right: I also see a detectable speed difference. Any process with actions is faster. The GUI based processes (Converter, Tag Panel, Extended Tags Dialogue) take the same amount of...
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ShatteredGlass: Can anyone explain what the difference is between using the two methods and what the pros/cons are of using one method over the other? I'm just curious on what's going on in the...
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ShatteredGlass: Feel free to submit your feedback to Chevrolet, Subaru, Cadillac, Lexus and Maserati since out of all those vehicles I own, one of which has an aftermarket Pioneer headunit, not a...
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Efficiency of Removing Tags (Extended Tags vs Remove Fields)
Florian: The method via extended tags (or via the Tag Panel) has some extra code in place that makes updating the File List during the process much more smoother, especially when scrolling the list...
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MotleyG: Car players often only display a limited number of tags. They may not even use them in their background processes either. But that shouldn't affect whether or not any tag is consistently...
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Efficiency of Removing Tags (Extended Tags vs Remove Fields)
ShatteredGlass: All of them were using the Artist, Title and Album tags from the AAC file being played on an iPod via Bluetooth. I didn't do any testing via SD Card or anything like that as I find the...
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ShatteredGlass: Just did another test tonight, removing the Album Artist tag on 4,665 AAC files... via Extended Tags: ~3 minutes via Quick Actions: ~3 seconds This looks like the action had nothing to...
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I just tried 161 files Convert>Tag-Tag: ~4 seconds Quick action: ~4 seconds Tag-panel: ~10 seconds Extended tags: ~10 seconds Read full topic
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Florian: This looks like the action had nothing to remove and just ran without touching the files. If you use extended tags, the tag of each file is always written. So when comparing performance,...
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OK, this video was pretty impressive. Thanks for taking the time to create it. I've revised the thread-locking strategy when writing tags to improve performance with Mp3tag v3.25h. It would be great...
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It's working perfect now Florian! Thank you for making those revisions. I knew I should have just posted a video from the start, would have saved us all a lot of back and forth conversation. To be...
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ShatteredGlass: I bet most people probably don't realize there are multiple ways to do so some things and just get in the habit of using either the Quick Actions or Extended Tags and so they probably...
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Texta: Exactly. But I just read the changelog before editing lots of files and thought, hey what's that. Indeed it always took a looong time for me to edit some hundreds files, like deleting comments...
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