[Abcde-users] FW: Abcde and aiff

[Gabriel Rosenkoetter]

On 2025-04-22 10:47, Jason Miller wrote:
> Gabriel Rosenkoetter <gr at eclipsed.net> writes:
>> Huh.
>>
>> Are $TRACKARTIST, $TRACKNAME, and so forth populated when that code path
>> executes?
> Somehow this thread got detached from the original thread in my
> mail-reader, so I missed this track of discussion, but see in the

That's on me: I deleted the wrong email address after hitting reply all 
(so responded to the original poster, rather than the list), and then 
forwarded that response along without bothering to duplicate the 
Message-ID headers. Oops!

> original thread that I confirmed that the result of running abcde with a
> configuration substantially similar to what was posted resulted in a
> UTF-8 id3v2 tag in the AIFF file on my machine.

Right, I did read that, but I'd forgotten by the time I got to reading 
the "look, abcde AIFF encoding does the tagging at encoding time, not 
the 'tag' step" chunk.

That confirms that it is something odd about Dry's (or qrp? How would 
you prefer we refer to you in the third person?) setup, and ffmpeg 
version seems as viable an answer as any other to me.

I think maybe the next step here is that we want a log of an encoding 
session from qrp@ with the verbosity kicked way up, rather than poking 
around asking about various underlying component version numbers, since 
that'll be included in the logging, eh?

I need to juggle a few other things right this second, but if nobody 
beats me to it, I'll follow up with suggested additions to abcde.conf to 
kick that log out.

> Lastly, I wasn't able to get RuneAudio setup, but it appears to be MPD
> based, and a vanilla MPD server was able to read the metadata properly
> (again on my machine).

Okay, cool. I think that puts paid to my suggestion that it's plausible 
there's a major-ish bug here that we've all just not hit because we 
don't encode to AIFF. So that's good! Doesn't fix the original problem, 
but hey: we'll get there. :^>

-- 
Gabriel Rosenkoetter (he/him)
gr at eclipsed.net
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