Muzikbrowzer and Audio File Tags

Muzikbrowzer supports reading and writing of the following tags

File Type Tag Type i/o

.mp3 ID3v1 read/write

.mp3 ID3v2.3 read/write

.mp3 ID3v2.4 read, writes ID3v2.3 if edited

.ogg VorbisComment read/write

.flac VorbisComment read/write

.wma Windows Media Format read/write

The only time Muzikbrowzer will write to your audio files is if and when you perform tag editing with Muzikbrowzer Otherwise it only reads tags for the purpose of building it's database. If you perform tag editing on your files with software other than Muzikbrowzer, you'll have to rebuild the Muzikbrowzer database: Menu/MusicLibrary/Rebuild.

ID3 tags

Reading ID3 tags: Muzikbrowzer first reads the ID3v1 tag, then the ID3v2 tag. If both exist then the v2 values override v1 values in Muzikbrowzers Library view.

Writing ID3 tags: If you use Muzikbrowzer to edit your tags it will write to both the v1 and v2 tag in each file.

ID3v1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4

Muzikbrowzer provides full support for ID3v1 and ID3v2.3 tags. Muzikbrowzer does not support ID3v2.4 tags. If you perform tag editing with Muzikbrowzer on ID3v2.4 tags the v2.4 information will be lost. Muzikbrowzer will create a ID3v2.3 tag in it's place. If you are performing tag editing with Muzikbrowzer it attempts to check for ID3v2.4 tags and present you with a confirmation dialog before converting to ID3v2.3. This may or may not be important to you.

Ogg Vorbis, Flac

Reading: Muzikbrowzer reads GENRE, ARTIST, ALBUM, TITLE, TRACKNUMBER and DATE. If there are more than one tag field only the last one found is used. For example if a tag contains 2 GENREs only the last one read will be used.

Writing: Muzikbrowzer supports one tag field per file. So if you have more than one GENRE in a single file and you use Muzikbrowzer to edit the tag in that file, it will be replaced with a single GENRE field in that file.

Windows Media Format tag (.wma)

Reading: Reads WM/Genre, WM/AlbumArtist, WM/AlbumTitle, Title, WM/TrackNumber, WM/Year.

Writing: Same.

Multiple fields of same type

Muzikbrowzer will only modify the Genre, Artist, Album, Title, Track, Year tag fields. Any other tag fields present in your tags will remain unaltered (except for the ID3v2.4 issue discussed above). Note that if there are multiple tag fields of the same type in a single tag, and you edit that file with Muzikbrowzer it will replace those multiple fields with a single field. For example if your tag has more than one Genre field and you edit it with Muzikbrowzer it will be replaced with a single Genre field. This applies to all file types.

Backup

Before performing tag editing with any software you should ensure that your data is backed up. When experimenting with new software you should first work on copies of a sample of your files. If you use several different applications to play and manage your files you should make sure "everything still works" before applying an operation to your whole collection.