kdf;178493 Wrote: > On 7-Feb-07, at 12:19 AM, MrSinatra wrote: > > > > i'm not sure how best to proceed in fixing my tags... i guess i > can't > > count on winamp to do it. in the library view, it shows me things > that > > are not necessarily in the tag itself. > > > > i guess i'll have to become proficient in mp3tag. > > > > my Q then is, is mp3tag the best thing to use for SS, or would i be > > better off using a different but similar program? > > > mp3tag is good. Tag&Rename is also good. I use the latter. The > important thing about fixing tags is to also make sure what you don't > want there, isn't there. This means you need something that can > understand rogue tags, extended or little supported tags, and more > importantly APE tags. Slimserver isn't restricted to only standard > tags (IE, compilation tag is important, yet non-standard) and when it > comes to APE tags, it is assumed that if you have them, you want them > used (they are much more flexible than id3). This means they will > override ID3v1 and ID3v2. >
Simpler would be to just remove the reading of APE tags entirely, then you don't have to worry about removing them from every single file. Fortunately it's pretty easy to do so by just commenting out the line in Slim::Formats::MP3.pm which reads the ape tag (MP3::Info::_parse_ape_tag). I made a small patch for that, but I don't know whether I ever posted it - possibly because my patch was based around a 7.0 version. http://usenet.gerph.org/SlimServer/id3-and-ape-processing-configuration.diff - which will let you configure the server to process tags in one of a number of ways : * Ignore all ID3v1 and ID3v2. * Process only ID3v1. * Process only ID3v2. * Process ID3v1 and ID3v2, merging the results. * Process ID3v2 if present, ID3v1 otherwise. And an option to process APE tags. It's handy if you happen to have people give you files that are tagged with APE and you just couldn't care less about them, or if you know that you only use ID3v2 and you don't want ID3v1 confusing you (or - as is my case - you only use ID3v1 and don't want ID3v2 confusing you). -- gerph ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32516 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
