[mythtv] Re: [PATCH] Fix MythMusic metadata extracting from filename

[Colin Guthrie]

Simon Kenyon wrote:

> just realised that all the music i ripped since these changes went in have no 
> ID3 tags. well they may do, but nothing can read them.
> 
> i have my music on a file server which myth, itunes, whatever reads and writes 
> from. using something other than "standard" id3 tags embedded in the files is 
> not the way to go.
 >
> is it possible to go back to (old fashioned but supported) ID3 2.3 tags 
> please?

It uses ID3v2.4 tags which is "standard" just not very supported.

The reason that this cannot be changed back is that there are now 
metadata editing facilities built in to Myth and this necessitated the 
use of libid3tag (already a dependancy) for tag editing.

Unfortunatly, it will only write v2.4 tags (a total pain I agree).

I personally would like to use TagLib, but alas that is not an option as 
it's an extra dependancy.

If you can add to libid3tag_hack.c in MythMusic to make it write v2.3 
tags then this would be great, but failing that other applications 
/should/ upgrade really seeing as it's the latest version...

I'd appreciate some feed back from you on an upcoming most titled 
"MetaLibrarian RFC" which I'll post probably later tonight.... It would 
have a solution to this..., though not without it's problems. If you 
have the id3v2 program on your computer there is a hacky patch posted by 
Paul on this thread that will use that app to do the tagging, tho' it 
doesn't support compilation artists (despite id3v2 being capable of 
writing those frames).

Personally, I'd just use Ogg. Myth/iTunes can play them fine ;) tho' I 
guess this depends on personal media player support too (my iRiver likes 
them!).

Col.


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