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Audio metadata not editable

Hi all, thanks for the audio uploads - they're great!


I noticed an issue (maybe known, not sure) where when you upload audio and provide metadata (track name and description), they do not seem to update when editing the post.


Steps to reproduce:

1. Upload audio and provide audio track name, submit post

2. Edit the post and change the title information and click "post now"

3. Any edits to the post text are changed, but the audio metadata is the same as whatever was provided in the initial post.


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It gets VERY confused about metadata for multiple files. If you add two audio files and try to edit their metadata after both files are uploaded, it takes the metadata of one file and applies it to both and won't let you fix it. The problem doesn't occur when you add one file, fill out its metadata, then add the second file's metadata. As in:


Upload File 1

Upload File 2

Edit Metadata 1

Edit Metadata 2


Is bad and the site gets confused, whereas


Upload File 1

Edit Metadata 1

Upload File 2

Edit Metadata 2


Seems to have worked.


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Trying to do a thread of audio embeds also seems to trigger this. The first audio post works fine, but in every reply that includes more audio files, the metadata is never saved and cannot be edited after the fact.

same prob . had to reupload the same file when editing and then i was able to save the edit with the new metadata applied to the "new" file

this happened to me when i did a post with audio and a picture with alt text. I saved the post to drafts beforehand. had to reupload the audio to add metadata, but alt text worked fine.

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