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More sleuthing has uncovered something. Puddletag shows various files with Playcounts with 2 values e.g. 0\0, 0\258, up to 0\65335.

I tried to delete those screwy counts in puddletag by overwriting them with 0 but it doesn't seem to have taken. Or they've regenerated.

Checking in kid3 it turns out that one of those files, with 0\258 has
FMPS_PLAYCOUNT=0
FMPS_Playcount=258.

If I listen to it once in strawberry:
FMPS_PLAYCOUNT=0,
FMPS_Playcount=259.
So strawberry increments FMPS_Playcount but not FMPS_PLAYCOUNT.

I wonder what the official/correct tag name is?
https://www.exiftool.org/TagNames/ID3.html this says it's "PCNT" for id3 v2.4
According to https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/issues/1074 , FMPS_Playcount (Strawberry spelling) is CORRECT, so logically something else has been using FMPS_PLAYCOUNT.

But why do they (second entry, FMPS_Playcount) go up to 65335?
And does overwriting them with 0 in puddletag not work because it's displaying 2 variants of the same tag?
In puddletag I can't create separate columns for the 2 spellings because it automatically uppercases them but displays both.

@Sharky-PI adding info to this thread: searching the collection by
genre:microhouse
does find the example track, as does searching by
genre:clownpenis
So manual search works for semicolon-separated-subgenres, just not the GUI dropdown system.

@rlkeeney @jonas thanks lads, sorry, only just saw these replies.

Ok so for MP3 ID3v2.4 I shouldn't need to do anything given I have those 4 options ticked, i.e.:

Once a track has finished playing in Strawberry
-- if I've rated it in Strawberry, Strawberry should save the rating to the file
-- Strawberry should increment the playcount +1 and save that to the file If I edit a track externally (for reference, I would only be saving other tag fields, never rating nor playcount) Strawberry will re-read the track... so if I listen to a track in Strawberry, rate it, the track ends and the rating and playcount are updated by Strawberry to the track's ID3, then I change the track's comment externally, Strawberry should subsequently re-read the track's info (when it does a full scan?) and see the updated comment, and the rating & playcount should still be correct?

I might need to do some testing on that last one. For some reason it seems I have LOADS of tracks I've definitely played countless times, which have playcount=0, and similarly loads I've played and rated which have blanks for both. In the meantime I've edited various ID3 details for those tracks, but as I understand it, that should never compromise the playcounts and ratings, so it seems something is behaving incorrectly...

@jonas fabulous stuff, sorted, cheers mate

@Sharky-PI Actually, I just found a work-around for this! If you put quotes around the album name in the search bar, it will treat the dash as a literal dash and not as an exclude symbol.

@rlkeeney RL do you happen to know if one can search the lyrics field?
I've started to manually enter lyrics for lots of deep house tunes which typically only have a few lines, and often an unrelated track name, so being able to search for
"specific sentences of lyrics"
would be really useful. The default search bar searches multiple fields including Comment but not lyrics, it seems.
Thanks for any intel!