[Abcde-users] FW: Abcde and aiff

[Dan Hargens]

I see no screenshots here...

On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM Dry Martini Holding Company via Abcde-users
<abcde-users at lists.einval.com> wrote:

> Here are two screenshots of two files viewed through the kid3 program.
> The one titled Blue works properly. The other titled concrete does not
> work (does not show up in the album or artist listing). I see that the
> one that is working is ID3v2.3.0. The other is, ID3v2.4.0. There is lots
> of album information missing on the file that does not work properly.
>
>
> Robert
>
>
> On 4/25/25 21:54, Gabriel Rosenkoetter via Abcde-users wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >
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