hi all, we have seen a lot of posts lately about trying to figure out how and why SC7 does what it does depending on the files and tags and data it finds (or doesn't find) in our mp3s and other audio files.
what i am proposing and requesting help on, is a wiki page that lays out in a linear way what SC7 looks for, and what it does if it finds it, or doesn't find it. a step by step linear flowchart on wiki of its library logic. Dean said this would be a great idea, but i am not wiki knowledgeable. can someone please help? start a page and then we can all start filling it in? i think we should stick to "generic" tags first, meaning those you'd get inserted in a file using EAC and lame.exe without custom commands. it seems to me that user defined fields or itunes things like "compilation" tags should be charted afterwards. (in other words, figure out the simple first, then figure out special cases) we need to chart id3v1.x, id3v2.x, and ape tags, as well as what SC7 does when no tags are found. someone did something like this before, but not on as grand a scale, and they limited themselves to various artists: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?VariousArtistsLogic i want to quote some reference sources that should be part of the wiki entry: http://www.id3.org/ http://www.id3.org/d3v2.3.0 here is a program that shows you your tags data in hex form, although i am looking for one that shows you not just the data, but the name of the field in similar hex form: http://www.dalepreston.com/Blog/2007/02/id3-raw-tag-viewer.html as an aside, here is a place to get a program that shows you lame header info, (which is separate and distinct from id3 info): http://www.thelion.fm/mp3tools/LameTag/ in the next post i will post some forum links and some relevant bug reports. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / Jive - w/SC 7.0.1beta - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45876 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
