[mythtv-users] id3 tags??

Noah Silverman noah at allresearch.com
Mon Jan 26 18:21:17 EST 2004


Thanks!!

Good to know.

How should I tag the files?

I can write a simple perl script to convert the tags, but I need to 
know the format.

Thanks!!!

-N


On Jan 26, 2004, at 2:35 PM, Isaac Richards wrote:

> 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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