English track data overwritten with downloaded Japanese data!!

[Dan Plastina [MS]]

We're going to look into this... this is the first time I've seen clear
evidence. Thanks Mike.

"Mike Williams" <mikegw...@owlandthepussycattbi.com> wrote in message
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> This is really funky!
>
> I had a 2CD set: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Dinu Lipatti. Both
had
> all the correct data filled in.
>
> Sometime since installing 2926, the Album Artist for Disc 2 has been
> overwritten from 'Dinu Lipatti' to ?????????? (According to Babelfish,
> this translates to 'Sunny day * service' which is ironically amusing).
>
> Another in this series: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Leopold
> Godowsky, has had the Album Artist 'Leopold Godowsky' replaced with
'Various
> Artists'.
>
> Screen shot shows this, plus my Media Library settings. This demonstrates
> (as reported by me and others in earlier builds) that WMP overwrites data
> regardless of the option setting.
>
>
>
>

[Dan Plastina [MS]]

Mike,

Two issues...
==== First ===
We looked at this and what you're showing in your UI is that we filled in
the "Album Artist". The Album artist is never really filled in files --
only the TRACK artist is. The reason why it looked like we overwrote data is
that the tree view shows this:

Album Title (ALBUM Artist)

but we'll "downgrade" to

Album Title (TRACK Artist)

if the album artist is missing. In your case it was, and when in came in you
saw the mess you are showing me.

If your album artist did have a value, then we have a bug that we'd need to
fix. Can you verify that the above is correct?

==== Second ===
Looks like our metadata match was wrong. Our metadata for Classical has
gotten better, but it still needs some work. Net here is that you'll need to
do a Find Album Info.

Can you confirm?

[Dan Plastina [MS]]

Ok, thanks Mike. If you can, keep an eye out for this again... I'm sure
you'll let me know if we're at fault here ;)

"Mike Williams" <mikegw...@owlandthepussycattbi.com> wrote in message

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> Dan Plastina [MS] wrote:
> > Mike,
> >
> > Two issues...
> > ==== First ===
> > We looked at this and what you're showing in your UI is that we
> > filled in the "Album Artist". The Album artist is never really
> > filled in files -- only the TRACK artist is. The reason why it looked
> > like we overwrote data is that the tree view shows this:
> >
> > Album Title (ALBUM Artist)
> >
> > but we'll "downgrade" to
> >
> > Album Title (TRACK Artist)
> >
> > if the album artist is missing. In your case it was, and when in came
> > in you saw the mess you are showing me.
> >
> > If your album artist did have a value, then we have a bug that we'd
> > need to fix. Can you verify that the above is correct?
>

> I *believe* I filled in the Album artists info as I have been pretty
careful
> to get all the fields up to date when ripping so that I see my desired
> "Album Artist - Album Name" combination. Maybe the Album Artist info was
> lost when upgrading from 2800->2926 and then it was "filled in".

>
> > ==== Second ===
> > Looks like our metadata match was wrong. Our metadata for Classical
> > has gotten better, but it still needs some work. Net here is that
> > you'll need to do a Find Album Info.
>

> As I write, I've just got a 5-track Classical album that I'm ripping, that
> has been matched to a 4-track Japanese rock album. (I've partially
corrected
> some of the data fields already)
>
>
>
>

[Mike Williams]

Dan Plastina [MS] wrote:
> Ok, thanks Mike. If you can, keep an eye out for this again... I'm
> sure you'll let me know if we're at fault here ;)

Sho'nuff just happened again. 19 track Vivaldi Oboe Sonata album (Harmonia
Mundi907104) just got matched to Jim Brickman's "The Gift" w/13 tracks

[Mike Williams]

And another: Smetana/Dvorak String Quartets (8 tracks) [Philips 420 803-2]
matched to Bob Dylan's Street Legal (9 tracks). Maybe Bob is planning
another surprise at Newport...

Question: how do I delete the erroneous data doanloaded for the fields
"Release Date"and "Data Provider"? These get filled in and I can't correct
them - although the fields "appear" to be editable in the Copy CD pane.

[Dan Plastina [MS]]

Recently found bug that these can't be change (as is Composer I believe)
until you've ripped the tracks. You'll need to rip the tracks, then change
them.

"Mike Williams" <mikegw...@owlandthepussycattbi.com> wrote in message

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