Eliminate Duplicate Albums/Tracks

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(05-06-2020 11:16)simoncn Wrote:  Thanks for these files.

In ID3v2.3, a numeric genre must be in parentheses: (0) and (74). In ID3v2.4, a numeric genre must not be in parentheses: 0 and 74. These files have ID3v2.3 tags with numeric genres that are not in parentheses. How were the files created?

These were both replacements of existing tracks.

Existing tracks were replaced in the file system. As long as the file names are identical, iTunes works with the new file in place of the old. Tags appear the same in iTunes apart from album artwork, which needs to be replaced, but in practise, although visible in iTunes many of the tag fields are not actually visible in the file tags to other programs i.e mp3tag.

I had to manually update most of the 2 samples I sent in mp3tag, however, I did not change the genre fields, which appeared as numeric values in mp3tag.

I have mp3tag prefs set to save as ID3v2.3.

So iTunes saves as ID3v2.4 with numeric genres, but when I update things using mp3tag, its saves as ID3v2.3