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Topic: Masstagger writes files despite no changes to tags (Read 815 times) previous topic - next topic
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Masstagger writes files despite no changes to tags

Hi guys,

I had some trailing whitespace in some very few files and tags. I decided to get rid if it via Masstagger. Fortunately only on a smaller, 20 GB sized lossy collection.

Masstagger wrote all files from scratch, is that intended behaviour? It would interfere with my backup strategy, which compares files by dates.
fb2k v2 x64 latest beta.

Thx

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Re: Masstagger writes files despite no changes to tags

Reply #1 –
I have exactly the same problem in MP3Tag.  As with FB2K, you can set it to update timestamps of not update timestamps - not updating means its not possible to keep track of genuine updates, but having it update timestamps results in new timestamps on files which have not changed.  For some reason the powers that be seem not to be bothered.
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Re: Masstagger writes files despite no changes to tags

Reply #3 –
Thanks guys -
Quote from: marc2k3 on
You could try using Cleanup from the main Properties dialog instead. Pretty sure it only writes files where values have changed.
Always overlooked that one, will give it a try.