Empty grouping tag for some but not all MP3 files

Hi!

I'm on Mac.

I was used to use the Group tag with the previous version of iTunes 12.4.3.1

on my MacPro with 10.8.5. Now I need that tag in my notebook because

I use the program djay from algoriddim that sees the "group" tag as

its "category" field (very useful for me).

Now if I import the same songs in the notebook with 10.12.6 and iTunes (12.5.4.42),

djay is not able to see that tag anymore (and I spent all the day to understand why).

Now I know the reason, but for me it's not fixed... fixed should be if they use the

old tag as always and insert a new one with the new feature.

In this way they are making iTunes not compatible with other softwares iTunes-based

AND with other versions of their own iTunes.

Any suggestions?

Second bad step with this new version for me (FYI: after upgrading iPhone to iOS 10.2,

I'm not able to backup my phone to the old iTunes version... neither to see it attached...

BAD BAD BAD step...).

Cheers

Hi Ricky,

Thanks for taking the time to write this up. I strongly urge you to provide some feedback for Apple on this issue (which you can do directly from the iTunes app). It really does seem as though they didn't think this one through, or perhaps are simply unaware of some of the ways users interact with the software.

Cheers

ugh! I too use(d) the Grouping field to overcome the issue of ratings not being saved to file and subsequently lost due to iTunes database issues. Ratings are more important than comments so I'm headed back to using the comments for saving data that I'd like to persist. I am fortunate that I discovered the disconnect before rebuilding my system on another Mac and re-importing my music library as I've been accustomed to being able to do. It's really fun to (re)write 285 gb of data, but, then again, better than discovering my last months of updates disappeared.

Anybody got a good iTunes alternative that supports editing, dynamic (smart) playlists, IOS, and Sonos? I've been done for a long time (I think 10 or 11 was last reasonable version) with iTunes, but just haven't researched alternatives. Thanks in advance.

I've been having this exact same problem - so frustrating!

Does anyone have a work around of how we can embed this tagging into the MP3 on the newest update?

Got you, I found it now and I can see how to make it work.

But seriously.... why the update? It's so annoying.

Apple used to make things simple and easy, this is another road block, another step!

I dont understand why either, I guess just general Apple carelessness/arrogance. Ive written about it in a bit more detail here http://blog.jthink.net/2016/11/the-reason-why-is-grouping-field-no.html