>Hmm, I wonder what will cause most frustration, albums that appear in
>wrong place in the library due to duplicate tagging formats in files or
>users accidentally removing all tags from their files when trying to fix
>them.
>
It's probably additive frustration.  Frustration the first time that an 
existing user finds that their perfectly working library no longer gets 
displayed correctly, then more frustration when they have to find all iffy 
files, then frustration when they try to find a safe way to edit them ;-)

>This Mp3Tag solution feels a bit scary, does anyone know if there are
>some other software that just deletes the ID3v2 tags and leaves the
>Vorbis tags as they are instead of deleting+rewriting ?
>
It is a bit scary, but I've done it several times (on sub-sets of my library, 
not the whole library in one go).  I'd only do it if there's a backup to go 
back to.

>By the way, if we really want to keep this solution where tag values
>are read from several tagging formats, shouldn't there at least be a
>priority order so it primarily uses the tagging format that is mostly
>used for each file format ? ID3v2 for MP3, Vorbis for FLAC...
Yes.

There's no way that id3v2 should override FLAC tags for a flac file.

I guess there always used to be a priority order; the only thing that has 
changed is that missing tags are treated as if they are holes, causing other 
tags with lower priority to be read through the holes.

I guess a tag that is set as blank, is treated as a blank tag, which is not the 
same as "tag no present".  Some tag editors seem to set a tag value to blank, 
rather than delete the tag when it is set to blank.  I can also imagine some 
users entering a space in a tag, and thinking it's blank.
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