> And what level of Slimserver?

If you mean the version, I used 6.5 in that mentioned case. When trying
to look up "Information" on a Squeezebox to find out the version
information for what I tried last (imho 6.5.1), slimserver died
immediately.

> it puts a lot more effort into finding and interpreting tags

As I said the tags are all following the standards. ID3v1 can be found
at position filesize-128 and ID3v2 can be found at position 0 in all my
files. So actually it needs no effort to find them, they're in the most
standard position.

> A very common problem is to have tag3v1 and v2 tags with different
information

That's a problem? Well, it happens only for half a dozen albums, where
the name is longer than 30 characters; there I took the liberty to
adjust the ID3v1 album name to something more useful than just a cut
version.
Oh, and genres of course - ID3v2 just offers way more default genres as
well as custom genres.
If you say a difference there is a "problem", you're saying that people
should nto use the features of ID3v2 because that would cause a
difference, and that would be silly ;)

> This is hard to detect because most programs will show you the v2 tag
and
ignore the v1

Well, WinAmp shows both, and for editing I use ID3Tag and my own
software, which also both show both tags. I don't need to detect it
though, since in some cases it's wanted! And for all other cases, see
my comments above, I used my own software to improve tags, which
includes synching ID3v1 and ID3v2 where the difference is not
intended.

> you can turn on debug options from the command line

Have you ever tried to type -slimserver --help-? Exactly! So I actually
can't turn it on - I could only if I knew how, that's why I asked ;)

> or the web interface

The init.d script from the now dead apt repository seems not to be
compatible with the standard debian package; it will cause a slimserver
and slimserver_safe to run, but doesn't react on port 9000 at all.

> you can download the latest nightly

Even 6.5 and 6.5.1 depend on libyaml-syck-perl, which is not available
in Debian PowerPC stable. Since then, every time I want to use apt, I
have to remove slimserver to get rid of those dependencies, then
reinstall it afterwards.



Well, back to the problem: I spent another hour getting the Debian
clean again (you know - the new Debian packages with their dependency
hurting apt) and trying to install the SOAP::Lite perl module, which a
--d_9 (the only debug-similar thing I found) showed to be missing. I'll
have to spend another hour (another hour I don't really have) to finish
this just to get it back running, which'll mean at least 4 hours wasted
because they deleted the apt repository. Well maybe I should just put
wires everywhere and get some Rokus :-/


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