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Various Artists bug

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Chris:
Looks like it's finding the tags, but they're blank.

My guess is whatever tagging tool or ripper you're using is writing different information to the v1 and v2 tags.  If you edit the artist info for a song using, say, Windows XP's Advanced Properties, delete the databases and re-index, does that song show up properly?  If so, then making a pass with a different tagging tool may solve the problem.

Do you know what program created the tags on your songs?  Can you E-mail one of the affected songs to me at celamantia@gmail.com for testing?

--Chris

The Deacon:
Well, I was using mp3tag to fix/edit the mp3 tags.  Downloaded UltraTag Editor and had it delete all the tags and recreate them.  It made it better on a few songs, but not all.  I'm uploading the latest debug and will send you one of the songs that is affected.


Thanks again for all your help!

Chris:
Interesting.  It works up to a point, then stops.  I don't know if this is because the tag editor stopped doing them properly or if a buffer is getting clobbered in the jukebox.  If it's a buffer in the jukebox it should have been reported by now, though.

Can you send me your jukebox.db file?  I want to modify it and send it back to you and run another test. (Edit: See next post)

--Chris

Chris:

--- Quote from: Chris on June 17, 2006, 07:57:36 pm ---Can you send me your jukebox.db file?  I want to modify it and send it back to you and run another test.

--- End quote ---

Never mind this.  I copied the song file you sent me to my music directory, ran the jukebox, and got "Various Artists".  If I looked at the tag with XP's Properties/Summary and edit the artist name, it appears properly in the jukebox.  So something about the way your tagger is writing the tags isn't liked by WinCab.

Looking at the raw data in the files, it looks like Windows XP is storing the text fields as Latin-1 and your tagger is storing them as Unicode.  This shouldn't theoretically be a problem, as the jukebox is supposed to support Unicode, but I do know there are at least some Unicode bugs in the system.

I'm not quite sure what the answer is yet.

Chris:
OK, I think I found the bug.  I'm trying to fix it now.

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