Clementine and metadata

[Trynna3]

I have spent over half a day trying to fix why Clementine didn't read some music files/folders from the drives, two separate ones (I copied the music from one to another as a backup also). Clearing text tags and other proprietary tags, installed and uninstalled several tagging software, some failed to read the whole album to show tags or their lack of, or to edit (greyed out in Easytag), some enabled me to add tags where Easytag didn't allow me to touch it or showed all metadata blank where others showed metadata present, including audacity... I used audacity to add tags after I adjusted volume and cleared some noise... In some moments even audacity showed clear tag fields, despite I just added them manually again just a moment ago. Reinstalled audacity and now it shows metadata where it previously repeatedly didn't (just some albums, not all).
To cut the long story short, I somehow found out I can add metadata in Clementine itself (Strawberry had the same issue with finding the albums, they are siblings, after all, so I tried this one as well). After I adjusted this metadata like the artist in Clementine how it wanted to see it, THEN it listed the albums under one artist's name. Yaay! Just Artist probably isn't enough, it also must be an Album Artist specified (writing from memory, vocabulary may differ).
Strange that Windows media player had no issue with this and showed all and played all, whether mp3 or wma, whatever tags were behind the scenes...
Now I will probably need to go folder by folder of over 50GB data and see what that unfruitful fruit sees and what it doesn't, and amend accordingly. I also have many loose songs, free downloads from years ago, too.
AI suggested some automated commands, but my brain is a mash, at half past 2am.

 

[Trynna3]

I have been working a bit more on this.
Even if I add metadata in audacity, like artist, Clementine doesn't see it the same way and I need to specifically add artist in Clementine, or it sends the whole album into 'unknown' artist.
Also, when there are more than one artist listed in some album/song, like if all were Clannad, but one song had Bono, the chance is it will still revert to Various category, not showing the album under Clannad group of albums. So I had to overwrite the metadata for the likes of Clementine and I suspect this stays within Clementine, not translating to the overall metadata (haven't checked it out).

My other observation is that Clementine doesn't launch on just one click on its icon in the task bar. I have to click for the second time for the software to launch. After first click I noticed a temporary reddish icon appearing on the right side on the task bar, next to bluetooth icon, then disappearing and I have to click that second time to launch the software.
Anyone knows why that is?

 

[Trynna3]

Another finding:
Clementine somehow doesn't recognise certain characters out of English language, like í,ž,ů in the song or album titles, but in the metadata they appear as they intended to be (on the right side when displaying the songs playing, not in the metadata editor). In Clementine's own metadata editor I have successfully updated those characters though and now they show correctly.
Someone could look into this, my topic turns into some sort of Clementine devs feedback for improvement LOL.

 

[Trynna3]

OK, I have somewhat figured out Clementine and metadata. But still: when I update the Artist in Audacity, it translates to blank in Clementine for both: Artist and Album Artist. Not always, just in somecases, it appears under Unknown at the top in the left hand side panel. I need to update the Artist in Clementine additionally.