Changed MP3 tags back up 2018-12-01 02:22:50 HiI have all my music stored on a internal hard drive "D" driveEach night free file sync creates a mirror back up to an external hard drive "H" driveIve recently started DJing with the portable H drive and using the comments field to store genre information (Using comments suits me for a few reasons)The problem is when i add information to the comments field on mp3s on the D drive, free file sync doesn't see it as a modified file so it doesn't copy the newly tagged file over to the H drive.This morning i have tried Jampal, free supersync and Mp3tagCompleteTags with no luck.Can anybody recommend a back up program that will notice changed tags, and back up the file?Many Thanks for your time in advance.
Re: Changed MP3 tags back up Reply #1 – 2018-12-01 18:09:54 I'm haven't used the sync software you're using so I may not be the best person to reply but here goes...Have you looked at the options for all the programs you're currently using?Looks like 3 different comparison variants available in FreeFileSynchttps://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=comparison-settings1. Compare by File time and size.File size would likely remain unchanged after a tag edit. A fixed/padded tag block allows tags to be changed without rewriting the whole file. Some tagging programs have an option to prevent timestamps from being modified. MP3Tag for example https://help.mp3tag.de/options_tags.html. If the timestamp and the file size are unchanged, the files are considered equal in this variant.2. Compare by File content checks for identical content and would likely catch a tag edit but bit-by-bit compare could be slow and probably not what you're using.3. Compare by File size (see File size in #1).
Re: Changed MP3 tags back up Reply #2 – 2018-12-02 01:59:48 HiMany thanks for the help, it seems Virtual DJ was screwing things up a bit. All sorted now.Thanks again