What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Rip a CD as one track with embedded chapters in XLD. Enter no metadata at
this stage.
2. Import the whole track into iTunes. Chapters will show up OK, track name
will be derived from file nameat this stage.
3. Edit metadata in iTunes.
4. iTunes will show correct album, artist, genre, etc., but these haven't
really been written to the file, and iTunes will not indicate that this is the
case. The file will actually have metadata unchanged from when it exited XLD.
5. This step is purely to check what happened to the file and whether the
metadata was truly written into it. Create a new iTunes library, or take the
file to a different computer and add it to its iTunes library. Only the track
name (which is derived from the file name) will show up. All other metadata
fields will be blank. Thus proving that post-XLD iTunes metadata edits weren't
actually written to what looked like an innocuous M4A file.
6. Use a 3rd party program such as Tag3 to edit metadata. These changes will
stick, but any further edits in iTunes will not. It's as if the file's metadata
is somehow "frozen" by XLD, locking out iTunes from ever making any edits, and
needing brute force from other means.
How about the reproducibility (always, sometimes, rarely, ...)?
Always.
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
iTunes should be able to change the intrinsic metadata. It doesn't.
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Mac OS X. XLD 20140504 (147.0).
Please provide any additional information below.
This one really is driving me insane. The whole point of using XLD is perfect
chapterised rips. The whole point of using iTunes is subsequent metadata
management and cataloguing, and using with iOS devices. Since XLD's metadata is
imprinted with the strength of a thousand Samsons, preventing iTunes from
editing it, this obvious pairing (XLD and iTunes) doesn't work. I really don't
want to have to look elsewhere for ripping since XLD does such a good jib of
ripping losslessly and with chapters.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by ism...@raveem.com on 10 Jul 2014 at 1:15
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
ism...@raveem.comon 10 Jul 2014 at 1:15