[mythtv-users] 0.25-fixes mythmusic "TagLib: Could not open file"

[Paul Harrison]

On 13/05/12 05:57, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Paul Harrison <mythtv at sky.com> wrote:
>
>> It would still be good to know that taglib can read the tags outside of
>> MythTV before we start to dig any further. They are part of the taglib
>> source in the examples folder.
>> http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html. Some distros like Gentoo
>> will compile and install them for you looks like your distro doesn't
>> unfortunately. Shouldn't be difficult to download the source that is
>> closest to what you have installed an compile the examples yourself.
>> Shouldn't have to install anything just run them from the source
>> directory after you have compiled them.
> well, this is interesting...
>
> $ tagreader Wheat\ -\ Hope\ and\ Adams\ -\ 01\ -\ This\ Wheat.flac
> ******************** "Wheat - Hope and Adams - 01 - This Wheat.flac"
> ********************
> -- TAG --
> title   - "This Wheat"
> artist  - "Wheat"
> album   - "Hope and Adams"
> year    - "1999"
> comment - ""
> track   - "1"
> genre   - "Pop/Rock"
> -- AUDIO --
> bitrate     - 847
> sample rate - 44100
> channels    - 2
> length      - 1:51
>
> $ framelist Wheat\ -\ Hope\ and\ Adams\ -\ 01\ -\ This\ Wheat.flac
> ******************** "Wheat - Hope and Adams - 01 - This
> Wheat.flac"********************
> ID3v2.4.0, 0 bytes in tag
>
> ID3v1
> title   - ""
> artist  - ""
> album   - ""
> year    - "0"
> comment - ""
> track   - "0"
> genre   - ""
>
> APE
> file does not have a valid APE tag
>
>
> I've used Jaikoz to tag my music, all with id3 v24 ISO-8859-1, UTF-8 for unicode
>

I haven't been able to reproduce this with the few flac files I have. I
did spot an error in the way we tested if a id3 tag was available in
flac files which is the likely culprit. There was also a bug in the way
the tracks filename was being stored in the DB which was only confusing
the situation. Both are now fixed in my fork. I also added a button on
the general settings page to clear the music metadata tables and one to
show the file browser to help find the music directory.

Paul H.