poor form to reply to your own message, i know ...
but just wanted to turn this thread into a public-service announcement for any fellow WMA users. i searched and found there is already an active bugfix request regarding Slimserver not seeing COMMENT tag. as i hinted it looks like any tag outside the WM\ section of the file header is not seen by the scanner routines. as well as comments, this also means that any ARTISTSORT tag is not seen, so you lose that feature. also means that REPLAYGAIN is missing. for ages i thought the lack of replaygain was a problem with wmadec or some proprietary aspect of decoding microsoft files or something ... but poking about the mySQL tables, if i manually add Replaygain track gain values, i can easily drive WMA playback volume up and down. so Replaygain functionality was ready and waiting all this time!!! with a large mix of very old and very new CDs, it would be good to get the gain back under control. so ... what have we learned. well, i don't what the demographics of WMA usage are on Squeezebox, and how big a priority this will prove to be (i'll drop tech support an email), but it does seem a fair few chunks of useful pre-exisiting Slim functionality could be switched on for a fair few users if the scanner had a quick look round the rest of the file-header. right now, i'm going to attempt a ridiculous and ugly manual fix: foobar2000 to do Replaygain calculations and store values in the tag, use Mp3Tag to add comments and artistsort values, then export ALL the library tag values as a text file ... quickly throw something rough-and-ready together in vb.net to mangle the file and hammer-out a whole bunch of mySQL lookups and updates. (it's not gonna be pretty, but we'll see what happens). anyhow - just a heads-up for any fellow WMA-ers. david -- davidC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ davidC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3861 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33659 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
