Hi everyone,
I hope this is the correct place to be posting this. If not perhaps some
kind soul will redirect accordingly.
I've noticed a curious problem on a new install of Fedora 23 running
Gnome 3.18.2
I've set up a cifs mounted share to a music library on a Windows
machine. I'd been having trouble getting any player of choice to display
attached (not folder) artwork on particular individual tracks. Those
problematic tracks are all WMA, and are only certain ones.
The reason I think the problem has to do with gnome and not, say, my
share, cifs or my player is this:
To check why I was having said problems in the player, I opened up the
mounted folder in Nautilus to view the files. It defaulted to a tiled
view where I could see mostly folders (albums, displayed as default
folder icons) and the individual tracks, almost all of which had
thumbnails depicting the track/album art. Problematic files (there are
only a few) have the default overlay icon of a green quaver.
I browsed to a problem file and did two things. I selected to play it in
Videos - the default packaged player - where it showed the attached
album art while playing. I then opened the file in Kid3-qt, where it
again showed the attached artwork.
What I can confirm with regard to the problem files is this: since my
library was assembled through years of using Windows, the WMAs have
migrated from Windows Media Player, via my player of choice, and via a
Windows tag editor where I have often removed a lot of the ghastly crap
that Windows attaches. The problem files do not have any of their meta-
tags class [WM/MEDIAPRIMARYCLASSID] attached, and which will often take
the following form:
[WM/MEDIAPRIMARYCLASSID {D1607DBC-E323-4BE2-86A1-48A42A28441E}] where
that hex value is some idiotic nonsense that Windows comes up with and
tries to tie those music files to an online store (among other things).
Note however, that whichever tags each WMA file does or does not have,
it DOES have attached art., and which art shows up in tag editors.
I accept that it's my fault these tags are missing, but find it curious
that in some way, Gnome fully supports those WMA files that retain their
full [WM/*] tags, and will play the others but not display correct
thumbnails, despite ALL WMA files having attached artwork.
Is there some other form of tag I could create? Or is there a package I
need to download or some other plugin that might solve this annoying but
not exactly critical issue?
*alan ansell figurative painting Itzac France*
He would be a poet who could impress the winds and streams into his
service, to speak for him.
- Henry David Thoreau
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