New installation teething problems

[Budgie]

(22-08-2021 22:54)simoncn Wrote:  The format for Genre (TCON frame) changed between ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4. For example, Rock is '(17)' in ID3v2.3 and '17' in ID3v2.4 (no parentheses).

Your tagging program should have made the necessary changes when it converted the tags from ID3v2.3 to ID3v2.4 but it seems it is incorrectly using the ID3v2.3 Genre format in ID3v2.4 tags.

For various reasons, ID3v2.4 is better than ID3v2.3 so I don't recommend going back to ID3v2.3. Can you use a different tagging program to do a correct conversion from ID3v2.3 to ID3v2.4?

Alternatively, you could fix this by doing a bulk replacement of '(17)' with '17' etc. in all your ID3v2.4 files if your tagging program provides this capability.

Hi Simon and many thanks for clear and helpful advice. As I recall I had some tagging problems when the data was in another machine. AFAIK I have used Easytag for several years now and had it set for id3v2.4 but either an earlier version of Easytag or possibly puddletag might have caused the problem. You have now given me all the info I need to investigate so many thanks once again.
Regards,
Budge.