I tried sending this yesterday, but my machine was being flaky. I don't think
it actually got sent, but if you're receiving this twice, my most sincere
apologies.
-Scott
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Subject: Re: musicbrowser, metadata
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 00:48:28 -0500
Hello,
All this talk about metadata (not that much, really, but it's a good lead in)
and tags provides a nice segue for my question: how does freeamp handle id3v2
tags? Reading such tags is listed as a feature for 2.0, if I remember
correctly. It's not very adept, however, at reading files with large tags
(e.g., that have a picture in them). I have several mp3's with picture data
in the id3v2 tag that freeamp won't play, usually giving me the following error:
Error: Could not open the specified file.
Error: Cannot initialize pmo: 12
I'm assuming there's nothing wrong with the format of the tags themselves,
since they were made with musicmatch jukebox and are playable within winamp.
If anyone desires, I can post some of these songs on the web. There
shouldn't be too many legal problems with this, since they were free downloads
from musicmatch.com.
My assumption is that you aren't using the id3lib, available on the id3.com
website. If this is an incorrect assumption, please let me know. I am
currently hacking the library so that it works on linux and comes in a nice gnu
installer tarball, using automake, autoconf, and such. I'm pretty sure the
current id3lib download has a windows dll already compiled. This library has
been released to the public domain, so I was wondering if there was any
discussion/consideration for using it in freeamp. As I understand it,
Musicmatch has taken up "official" development of the library, but I haven't
heard of any public announcement from them, either about their assuming
responsibility for the library or their plans for future development of it.
I know little about the freeamp codebase, but if using the id3lib for better
id3v1/2 tag support would interest folk here, I would be happy to try and help
integrate it into the project.
Please let me know if there is any interest in this.
Thanks,
-Scott
PS I like the new look of 2.0, and am anxious to see its features stabilize
more in linux. Thanks, elrod, ruoak, isaac, et al for all your efforts in
developing this project!
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Mayhem & Chaos Coordinator wrote:
> There are a few reasons for this:
>
> 1) The ID3 (version 1) tag cannot store enough of the information we want to
> store. Plus it limits the artist, title and album fields to 30 characters
> which is inadequate.
> 2) It is faster to access this data when it is stored in a central location
> such as a database.
>
> This allow us to present the user with a nice music tree quickly.
>
>
> --ruaok Freezerburn! All else is only icing. -- Soul Coughing
>
> Robert Kaye -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://moon.eorbit.net/~robert
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