Re: Identifying Automatic Changes

[Budge <ajebay errichel co uk>]

On 24/08/16 15:46, David King wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 2016-08-23 23:27, Budge <ajebay errichel co uk> wrote:
> > How may I determine what automatic changes are being made/proposed when
> > after opening a file in Easytag and then leaving without making any
> > changes intentionally, I am prompted to discard, save or cancel?
>
> There is currently no way to display the differences between the on-disk
> file and the changes currently in memory (whether those are automatic or
> have been entered by the user).
>
> > I suspect it may be the illegal character setting which I have just had
> > to change in my preference setting because my NAS box insists on using
> > the windoze broken character set even though we are all linux here.  Is
> > there any easy way to check if this is the case?
>
> I suppose that an appropriate interface for this would be a changes (or
> history) dialogue, showing the fields from the on-disk file and
> highlighting differences with the changes in memory. There are some
> changes that are not so easy to show, such as migration from old cover
> art formats, changes to ID3 tag versions and probably others that I am
> forgetting.
>
> Such a dialogue does not currently exist, but it should not be too
> difficult to write.
Hi David,
In my case the opportunity to compare came with the save pop up and as 
suspected most of my problems and need for re-tagging came from my use 
of a characters which give windoze systems problems.  By changing the 
automatic setting I think I have identified the changes and solved my 
problem too.  BTW it was not the NAS causing the problems but a memory 
card in Sony player.
Thanks for the reply.
Regards,
Budge