[Abcde-users] FW: Abcde and aiff

[Gabriel Rosenkoetter]

On 2025-04-25 21:47, josh via Abcde-users wrote:
> On 26/4/25 11:38, Dry Martini Holding Company via Abcde-users wrote:
>> I have no doubt that MPD plays the aiff files and displays the 
>> metadata properly. The part of the music server that is not working 
>> properly is the the display by "album", album artist, and artist. All 
>> of this info is stored in a DB. The DB is updated after any additions 
>> or deletions are made. In my case, the only part that diplays a newly 
>> added album, is the "alpha" order listing.
> It would really help to see the metadata from a track that MPD 
> displays correctly and the metadata from an abcde ripped track that 
> MPD does not display. Please show the out of the following:
>
> For a track that MPD displays metadata correctly: ffmpeg -i song.aiff
>
> For an abcde-ripped track that MPD does not display metadata: ffmpeg 
> -i abcde-song.aiff

Huh. I agree that that output would be useful to help understand this 
problem, but I read Robert's statement there slightly differently.

I think that we (josh, Jason, and I) have been assuming that MPD was 
never parsing any of the metadata in the id3v(whatever) tag (or that 
abcde was not applying those tags to AIFF files for Robert), but if MPD 
is able to display that information, but unable to index based on it, 
that's a different problem.

I'm back to thinking that this might be a problem for whoever's 
responsible for maintaining MPD.

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

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