On Oct 27, 2009, at 4:31 AM, Phil Meyer wrote: > I saw a checkin comment that a fix had been made to read all mp3 tag > data. I'm curious - what was the issue and what has the change done? > > It sounds a bit dodgy to me. If previous SbS releases have done > this, and this is just restoring that functionality, then so be it. > But if this is a new thing, it could be really confusing to people, > causing messed up music libraries. > > As I understand it, if an id3 v2.3 tag is missing (eg. no ALBUM > tag), then it will now look at other tags, eg. id3 v1 tag and use > that value. > > This could be bad - many people edit id3 v2.3 tags, eg. may > purposely remove album name, but not even appreciate that they have > id3 v1 tags present, and will wonder why their tag editor is showing > <blank> but SbS is showing old data. > > I think it is best to pick one tag block and ignore the others. > > Also, what will it report as the ID3 Tag Version in Song Info if the > tags came from multiple tag versions?
I hope it won't cause problems... what it does is read ID3v1 tags, then replace those values with any ID3v2 tags found. So yes if you have no TALB in ID3v2 but an album value in ID3v1, you'll get the album value from ID3v1. In most cases this is probably what you want. I guess we'll have some time to shake out whether or not this is a good change, as we don't plan another release for a while. The ID3 version shown will be the v2 version only, but probably it should say ID3v2.3.0 + ID3v1. I'm also considering a feature in the web UI where you could get a simple view of all tags we see in your file. Think that might be useful? _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
