Posted by JW on 11/22/06 16:33

I haven't determined which format the files use but I'm talking about
something both formats recognize...album name. I accidentally changed the
album name for a group that had multiple albums to one album and then
decided this would be a good time to check out my suspicions. when I
checked it with another program, the names were as they should be...not what
I changed them to in the other program. Joe

"John" <google-post@mp3-boss.com> wrote in message
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> The answer is a firm "it depends". Normally, changes WILL be written
> directly to the mp3 file, but even when they are written to the music
> file, you might not see the changes when using another music program.
>
> First, there are two widely used tagging formats out there -- ID3v1 &
> ID3v2 tagging. The ID3v1 format is very simple, and limited to only
> artist/album/title/track and short comment. The ID3v2 tagging format
> is very flexible, which is great in that it allows you to store almost
> anything you want in the file -- but not all of the fields will be
> supported by all of the programs. Also, some of the music programs
> will create custom fields that only they know about (early versions of
> MusicMatch did this, but later versions standardized on the more
> commonly used ID3v2 tags).
>
> So...the first thing to look at is whether you are writing ID3v1 or
> ID3v2 tags, and whether both programs are using the same tagging
> format. Most programs today support at least the most common ID3v2
> fields, and every program I'm aware of supports IDv1 tagging.
>
> John
> http://www.mp3-boss.com
>
>
> JW wrote:
>> I wanted to find out if anyone here could answer this...are changes made
>> in
>> Musicmatch, Mediamonkey, Fixtunes, etc. made directly to your files and
>> stay
>> that way no matter where they are accessed or are the changes made only
>> for
>> that particular program? The reason I ask this is because I made some
>> updates in Musicmatch to a certain group and then accessed the same group
>> in
>> Mediamonkey and the changes didn't show up. Thanks
>

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