Why are the metadata on random tracks being duplicated? v4.0.0

General Area
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Ever since updating to v4.0.0 of Engine DJ Desktop, when importing files, the value of their metadata is duplicated seemingly randomly. I see this most often happen to the Genre field, however I’m now seeing it for Artist and Title as well.

So, a file with the Genre “Drum & Bass” is imported into Engine DJ Desktop, and within Engine DJ Desktop as well as Engine DJ OS, the Genre shows up as “Drum & Bass Drum & Bass”.

What is going on?

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  • Are you editing multiple tag fields in the tag editor application? i.e. tag 1, tag 2, tag 3?
  • When you right-click a track in Engine and select 'show in Finder/Explorer, then open that track in the tag editor, does it only have the tag entered once or twice?
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Are you running your files through any other software for tagging, conversion, normalising etc ?

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metaflac. No other software sees the duplicated tags (ie: deadbeef, mediainfo). It is 100% Engine DJ Desktop issue as it is the only software duplicating the tags and the tags are not duplicated in the files themselves.

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Uhm, yes, but these actions would have been taken well before importing into Engine DJ Desktop, and not once the files have been imported. It is common for me to normalize audio and use tagging software to tag and move the files to their proper locations on disk.

I only deal with lossless, which are all converted to FLAC. All non-FLAC metadata types are scrubbed from the .flac files in the odd chance someone gives me a .flac that has MP3/ID3 tags improperly placed into a .flac file.

However, when inspecting the files with all other tooling, they all show the tags properly without any duplication. This happens (seemingly randomly) when importing files, so lets say I import 20 files, a few may be impacted but never all 20 or anything like that.

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So, when I painstakingly and manually go to any of these duplicated Genre groups through Engine DJ Desktop, I noticed something interesting.

Instead of right-clicking and getting some sane menu entry to adjust the tags, I’m forced to slowly click the Genre of the track, then click it again, but not too fast because if you do it too fast it’ll load the track, you have to get the timing right or it wont let you edit it. ( :cry: :anger: )

Once you give up on your time being important and get the double click timing correct, and edit the Genre to the correct Genre… well it just resets back to the incorrect, duplicated value. ( This is a bug )

So, lets say for some weird reason you decide to just try again. So you say “Screw you Engine DJ Desktop” and you edit the field a second time, the edit will stick.

This ONLY happens for these track affected by the duplicated metadata entries. Everything else just updates when you get the awkward UX correct and don’t click too fast.

I do not experience this issue on Rekordbox.