Philip Meyer;308314 Wrote: > >I can't see any options in MusicIP to turn off this effect. Anyone > know of a work around? > > > I've patched the MusicIP plugin to avoid this issue, until a fix is > available in MusicIP. > > MusicIP assumes that if an album or genre tag is blank, the name should > be "Miscellaneous". A blank artist tag becomes "Various Artists" (which > is also a very bad/wrong thing to do). Blank track names become "Track > n". > > ... > > I should do a better patch for the MusicIP plugin, such that if the > music file is already in the SC library, it will only set the mixable > flag for the song, artist, album and genre. If the file doesn't exist > in the library, then it could read the tags from MusicIP and add them > to the SC library. Generally, I don't ever want to take any tags from > MusicIP, because it would probably be wrong and cause inconsistencies > in the music library (i.e. not follow the same rules for compilations, > album artists, artist sort, etc). > > So essentially, I think it should not take tags from MusicIP, just find > tracks that are mixable. >
As of MusicIP Mixer 1.9 beta 5 (released yesterday), the HTTP API will no longer send the default values for missing metadata (they still show up in the UI, but that shouldn't be an issue for SC). The beta is only available for Windows at the moment, but we will be doing a linux release in the future. Anyways, if someone could test the Windows version to make sure it's giving correct results with SC, that would be fantastic. Also - note that the metadata mixer sends over the API is only the metadata from the files. We do not use the "suggested tag fixes" from MusicDNS unless a user specifically applies those to their files. So any other issues reported here about strange metadata are probably likely to issues such as album artist not being consistent with track artist in the file. Those are things you might want to fix in your files independent of the mixer. If someone has concrete examples, or info to the contrary, I'd be happy to investigate to make sure things are working as smoothly as possible. -- whicken ------------------------------------------------------------------------ whicken's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3991 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48357 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
