I have a file that has a value in Encoded By and I want to edit it to remove the date information there and put it in the Encoded Time but I can't this field. Even if I delete everything in the field as soon as I click 'Save' it all comes back - with a yellow dot.

Is this expected/desired behavior? If so, why is this field not editable?

All FLAC files have a vendor code which by default is mapped to the Encoded By field. Yate allows you to change this value if it is not mapped. Have you modified your FLAC mappings? Check what FLAC name you have the Encoded By field mapped to. Also check if any of the Yate fields are mapped to _Vendor_. By default Encoded By is mapped to _Vendor_. I'm guessing that this is not the case in your mappings.

Hmm, well it looks like the mapping is correct. I don't see anything else in the Flac mappings that also has _Vendor_ 😕

Oh I see. Yep, I can edit and and save it as long as its not empty - wonder what I did before that made me think I couldn't. Hmm.

What exactly is this Vendor string? Do you know if it used for something important or is it entirely informational? They all look something like 'reference libFLAC 1.3.0 20130526' . I assumed that the first part is the version of libFLAC that is being used by the ripper, I'm using XLD these days and currently it is using libFLAC 1.3.3 but but I doubt it has always been that way since I've updated it at least once and before I used MAX experimentally and it hasn't been updated in years and I've no idea what library it is using, I'm thinking some of these older versions must have been when I was playing with it some time ago. Anyway, the other part I'm assuming is the date it was ripped but maybe that isn't right, maybe its the date of the library? I was going to rip something and pay attention to what happens to see if that is the app that is populating that filed because I don't recall any settings were I chose what gets written to this field. I'm trying to decide if there is really a good reason to populate or not to populate these various encoder fields. I don't a lot of my library in FLAC right now but I've been using it since I stopped using iTunes to rip disks plus given the choice on format to purchase digital music in I've been choosing FLAC so I'm getting more of these lately.

That works for me - Thanks!

I just verified that XLD is writing that field and that it is not today's date so maybe it is the library date after all. And, there is no where in the preferences to change what is written in that field. Oh well, though I'd rather not put data into the file I can't imagine a reason to ever want it the future maybe I'll just ignore this one even though it makes no sense to me why a library version is being put as the vendor. Maybe just because _Vendor_ can't be an empty field and nobody thought of something better to put there. I sure can't. 😡