Comments on: Rhythmbox ID3 Tag Issues

By: Antares

Antares — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:51:00 +0000

The id3.v1 problem can be fixed using id3v2 using the -s option

id3v2 -s

Regards.

By: happyfish

happyfish — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 03:45:58 +0000

The only thing that’s working for me to solve this problem- and I’ve tried all night- is using a WINE run of SongBird Portable to edit the id3 tags… I’ve used several command line programs, VLC, Rhythmbox itself, puddlemp3… Nothing else is working. :S I have no idea why…

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:56:24 +0000

Oooh… thanks. I have had the APE tag issue with Rhythmbox before, but I’ve never run into the multiple sets of ID3 tags before! Man, what a waste of three hours trying to figure that out! In my case they were APE + ID3v1 + ID3v2 + ID3v2… AHAHAAHA.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:01:16 +0000

There are plenty of tag editors that will merge duplicate fields. Personally, I use windows-based mp3tag
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

I am concerned that it seems to be rhythmbox that is causing these duplicates.

By: Shane D

Shane D — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:14:39 +0000

Great post! Here are a few additions:

To automagically re-add the v1 tags (based on the v2 tags):
eyeD3 –to-v1.1 SONG_FILE

Here’s a script (fix_amazonmp3.sh) to do it all in one file:
#!/bin/bash
IFS=$’\n’
eyeD3 –remove-v1 $1
eyeD3 –remove-v1 $1
eyeD3 –to-v1.1 $1

To convert all mp3s at or below current directory using the above script:
find . -iname ‘*.mp3′ -exec fix_amazonmp3.sh {} \;

By: gmendoza

gmendoza — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:27:31 +0000

Haha!! I love that you cared enough about the topic to share that. :-P

By: Andrea R

Andrea R — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:16:12 +0000

Thanks!
It’s “Bob Marley & The Wailers” or (just “The Wailers” until 1974) though, not “Bob Marley”, unless for a couple singles from 1962. :-D

By: raf82

raf82 — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:51:16 +0000

Very Useful post!
See also http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1013374 about removing APE tags which can lead to the same Rhythmbox behavior.

By: Russell

Russell — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:57:12 +0000

Thanks a lot for this. i knew my mp3s had more than one ID3 tag but didn’t know how to resolve it. Your solution in very helpful

By: mas7ro.p!no

mas7ro.p!no — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:14:39 +0000

Thx mate, I really need this because I have the same issue, I write the tag with easytag but RB continues to display a wrong tag!

Thanks from Sicily :D