Re: easytag breaking ID3 tags?

[easytag-ML malenki ch]

[sorry, previously I sent this only as a PM]

Thanks for the quick reply.

David King schrieb
am Wed, 4 May 2016 09:18:05 +0100:

> Hi
>
> On 2016-05-03 20:58, easytag-ML malenki ch <easytag-ML malenki ch>
> wrote:
> > Here Easytag recently breaks a lot of ID3 tags.
> >
> > I could reproduce it amongst others with this file:
> > https://malenki.ch/d/02_Psalom._To_Alfred_Schlee_on_his_b.mp3
> >
> > * Open the folder which contains this file with easytag
> > * Edit the ID3-Title that it just contains "Psalom"
> > * Press "save"
> > * close easytag
> > * Open the folder which contains this file with easytag again
> >
> > Result: No ID3 tags show up  
>
> I can confirm this behaviour when using id3lib (writing ID3v2.3
> tags). However, there is no problem when writing ID3v2.4 tags with
> libid3tag. It is not currently possible to get errors from id3lib
> when writing ID3 tags:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765333
>
> It is likely that id3lib fails to write the file successfully for
> some reason, and does not report the error. Writing a custom wrapper
> function (rather than using the id3lib-supplied version) might help
> to get more information, so I will have a look at that soon. In the
> meantime, you could use ID3v2.4 as a workaround.

Although I thought I had set easytag ages ago to 2.4 this wasn't the
case. Doing so "fixed" the behaviour indeed.

> > Easytag reports "Error reading ID3 tag from file" etc. (why is there
> > no way to copy the log entries?)  
>
> Nobody has requested that before (and nobody has written the code to 
> make it possible). There is an on-disk log file stored in 
> ~/.cache/easytag/easytag.log (depending on the value of
> XDG_CACHE_DIR) which you might find easier to work with.

I found it not logical to see a log output in the GUI but no way to
copy it nor a hint in the GUI where to find the/a real log.

Thanks for pointing out its place.