Problems editing Hi Res Qobuz albums metadata with dBpoweramp

Posted by: pixies on 19 January 2018

I was fortunate to be able to download some of the Hi Res bargain albums from Qobuz being discussed in the Music Room thread, however am having a few problems sorting out the metadata. For Example I have bought the Beatles Sgt Peppers album which annoyingly has downloaded with 'Artist' and 'Album artist' as 'The Beatles'.  I want it to appear with all my other Beatles albums, so have tried to change the metadata (via dBpoweramp) to 'Beatles, The' just like all the other albums.  However after doing this the album completely disappears! Similarly I have tried to put some of the REM albums from their 'Complete Studio Albums 1988 - 1996' into individual album folders, ie creating one called 'Green' and moving the tracks into it.  However when I do this it won't appear!

Anyone offer any suggestions as to what i'm doing wrong?  I have used dbpoweramp for many years and never had any problems like this before, even with Qobuz albums that have required some editing. 

Cheers

Posted on: 21 January 2018 by Huge

I believe that  sometimes files downloaded as WAVE may have the metadata present in two (or more) different forms in different 'blocks' within the same file; whereas for FLAC this isn't possible (FLAC has a tighter definition of how metadata can be stored). 

In this situation editing the metedata may alter one copy of the metadata, but leave the other(s) unchanged.  If this happens the Media Server and/or the Control Point can become confused and may then not display and/or find files correctly.

Reformatting to FLAC (lossless) ensures that only one of these metadata blocks is preserved, and reconverting to WAVE (again lossless) ensures a consistent metadata state, with only one set of metadata present (thus making it function correctly again).  This consistent single set of metadata can normally then be edited successfully.

Posted on: 23 January 2018 by pixies

Just an update to say I've achieved what I wanted ie all albums seperated with correct metadata ...not bad for £3.98 (the duplicate albums were already in my collection).