On 6/5/06, bklaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just did an audit of my entire collection's ID3 tags, and found that in most cases I have both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags. In a recent thread I was reading here someone mentioned that getting rid of ID3v1 tags altogether is a good idea, esp. in terms of how slimserver works. Opinions? Anyone have any horrible nightmare stories about how removing ID3v1 tags destroyed their files? cheers, #!/ben
Apart from the problems of older players, the other issue is if the two versions of the tags contain different data (which is what causes problems for SlimServer). It might be worth extending your script to compare the two sets of tags, if possible; that way, you can figure out which ones can be safely deleted, and which ones need to be eyeballed first. Most of the differences are probably going to be around the v1 character limit, depending on whether the v2 tags generated the v1 tags, or vice-versa. Anyway, shouldn't cause any physical file problems, especially if you back up first :) Cheers Geoff _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
