MPFreaker Corrupts Data & Fails to Embed Properly
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 4:25 am
MPFreaker routinely flags songs that play just fine in iTunes (some of which were recently ripped, others which I've had for years in my Library with *no* indication of trouble) as needing rebuilding.
Many of these, upon "rebuilding," have Artists' names added (with "Space" + "Hyphen" + "Space") in the Song Title field and DELETE the Artists names for the Artist Field. Also, radomly adds "TIT1" and "TIT2" and "APIC" and "API" to parts of the Artists' names.
Also, routinely fails to recognize good artwork that *has* (in fact) been added/embedded in individual Song files.
Furthermore, when it does find artwork, it *frequently* fails to embed the artwork in the respective Song file; artwork doesn't show up.
Likewise with Lyrics for hundreds of songs it did find. Lyrics can be "inspected" with Lyric Inspector, but don't show up in iTunes.
I've been using MPFreaker for a long time and it's definitely a love/hate relationship. The above problems have been on-going and annoying
Oh, and the most recent bug I discovered? It shows dozens of songs *twice* for the scanned playlist ... when, in fact, the songs only occur *once* in the playlist.
FRUSTRATING.
I'm going to try some other apps to manage my Library and see if the are as buggy.
Many of these, upon "rebuilding," have Artists' names added (with "Space" + "Hyphen" + "Space") in the Song Title field and DELETE the Artists names for the Artist Field. Also, radomly adds "TIT1" and "TIT2" and "APIC" and "API" to parts of the Artists' names.
Also, routinely fails to recognize good artwork that *has* (in fact) been added/embedded in individual Song files.
Furthermore, when it does find artwork, it *frequently* fails to embed the artwork in the respective Song file; artwork doesn't show up.
Likewise with Lyrics for hundreds of songs it did find. Lyrics can be "inspected" with Lyric Inspector, but don't show up in iTunes.
I've been using MPFreaker for a long time and it's definitely a love/hate relationship. The above problems have been on-going and annoying
Oh, and the most recent bug I discovered? It shows dozens of songs *twice* for the scanned playlist ... when, in fact, the songs only occur *once* in the playlist.
FRUSTRATING.
I'm going to try some other apps to manage my Library and see if the are as buggy.