After I scan id3v1/v2 tagged mp3 files with mp3gain, foobar doesn't recognize any tags anymore (WinAmp is fine). I need to delete the mp3gain tags for them to reappear. Is there any way for foobar to still be able to read them
- without removing the mp3gain tags
- without using foobar's RG scanner instead
- without adding APE tags?

I've searched a bunch and seen this problem mentioned, but I haven't seen any good solution, so if this has been covered a lot, could you just point me to a good thread? Is it because mp3gain tags are APE?

From my understanding mp3 gain writes blank ape tags, and foobar reads ape tags first when present. Someone mentioned the next mp3gain will fix this. So AFAIK the only solutions are to wait for that, or add ape tags. I used Tag to add ape tags to my files. Here's the command I used

This is fairly painless, and quick. All this came from other posts on this forum. I would give credit to the origionators if I could.

Yes, and because foobar reads the most "advanced" tag formats it can find, APE, in this case. You can eithre set mp3gain not to write tags (if possible), or foobar not to read APE tags (as I see, you don't want to use them anyhow).
(I've never tried the either solution though )

Thanks, that sounds like the way to go. What does that commandline do exactly? I need to create APE tags that are copies of my ID3V2 tags...

That is the result I get. It makes the ape and id3 tags the same as far as I can tell. The "recursive" part makes it do all files in all subdirectories. There is a .txt file in the download that has some good documentation.

You could also remove the MP3gain you applied. Since foobar already has replaygain in it, you don't need it (unless you're also playing your files with something that doesn't understand replaygain).

I'm having the same problem, and I think it's easier for me to turn off APE tags and just use ID3v2, but how do i do that??

I also tried to use "tag" to copy the id3v2 info to the ape tags, and everything seems to go fine, but I still can't see the info in foobar. Also, this seems to only be affecting mp3s because all my m4a and flac files show the info in foobar.

You can't in 0.8.3, although in 0.9 it may be possible. At present you have to remove the duplicate tag, or else fill it with the information from the ID3v2 tag.



Well since you can't MP3gain them, its not surprising the mp3gain problem didn't occur

if you want mp3gain not to change your tags you must go to
options-->tags and check 'ignore...' and 'don't check while adding files'

Yeah, I'm aware that the problem can be solved by simply not storing/removing mp3gain tags, it's what I've been doing so far. I was looking for a way to not lose those tags. The Tag solution with adding APE tags seems to be working perfectly well.