Mark Lanctot Wrote: > ID3v1 tags have a 30-character limit. > > Mp3tag will cache tag data within a session so it looks like you can > enter 30-character+ data, but that's not what's written. If you close > Mp3tag and open it again, you'll see everything is cut off at 30 > characters. > > If you have both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags (which don't have a limit) it > becomes even more confusing as Mp3tag will read the data from the ID3v2 > tags but SlimServer will read truncated data from ID3v1 tags. > > The solution as Pat points out is to write ID3v2 tags only and remove > the ID3v1 tags. > > See http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20360
I've never had the truncated display problem, despite using both ID3v1.1 and ID3v2.3 tags in all my MP3 files. These include original MP3 rips, transcoded FLAC rips, and retagged files from other sources. One reason is probably my preferred tagging tool, the industrial-strength MP3 Tag Studio: http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts/ Like most feature rich utilities, MP3TS can seem overwhelming at first glance, but its capabilities far outdistance the competition. I'm surprised that it's not better known on this forum. Such an insanely powerful app really should be the geek's tagger of choice. Try it, you'll like it. Oh, back to the original point: Even though most of my library is now FLAC, SlimServer never truncated the overlong fields when I used MP3 only. And I still have a few MP3 sets (ripped elsewhere, retagged by me) that prove the point. I suppose a code crawl would also agree if I wasn't too lazy. I'm not trying to dissuade anyone from deleting the older v1.1 tags. But in my usage, MP3TS truncates those as needed while writing the complete v2.3 tags, and SlimServer is happy to respect the latter. In general, I believe dual tagging "done right" solves more compatibility issues than it creates. But as always, your mileage may vary. -- jpj ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jpj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1564 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21026 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
