[mythtv-users] id3 tags??

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Mon Jan 26 17:35:45 EST 2004


On Monday 26 January 2004 04:51 pm, Noah Silverman wrote:
> Help,
>
> I have 2  weird problems
>
> I have mythtv and mythmusic installed and working.
>
> Problem one deals with importing music.
>
> I have a ton of songs all in a few large directories.  They are flac
> files with id3 tags.
> The tags are correct, and id3tool and read them perfectly.
>
> The problem is that when myth imports the songs, it ignores the tags,
> so every song is unknown artist and unknown album.  For some reason,
> myth is just glossing over the tags.  Does anybody have any suggestions
> about how to correct this?

flac doesn't use id3 tags.  It has its own tag format if it's in a .flac file, 
and uses the vorbis tag format if it's in an ogg container.  You've basically 
tagged your files incorrectly.

Isaac


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