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dibb1er:
I would like to start by saying that Wincab is excellent.
Its the software I've been searching for so as to give me a reason to start a jukebox project.

OK, enough of the buttering up, now for the couple of problems I've experienced..    ::)

1. I have about a dozen songs in my collection that only show up the first letter of the artist when listed in wincab
I've double checked the id3 tags and the filename, and they appear to look normal.
Is there something I'm missing?

2. I get the occasional song that will play really quick (like its on fast forward), and then wincab crashes back to the desktop
The songs in question will always produce the same result (i.e. crash), but they play OK in winamp, wmp, my portable mp3 player etc.
Is this something to do with the decoder in wincab, or do i just have some corrupt mp3s?

3. I have 1 song (well, i have only found 1 so far) that has the id3 tag absolutely perfect (just like my first prob), but the artist tag is showing something that is not even present in the id3 tag. Sort of looks like album info, but this song doesn't have album info in the tag.
Where could it be getting this info from?

anyway, thanks in advance for any help that anyone can give.
oh, and I'm about halfway through building my desktop jukebox, i will post some pics soon.

cscon115:
I  too was inspired to start a juke http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=49823.0 and Wincab was a big part of it.

I have also had similar problems. They seemed to have started when I installed ITunes to "rip" my cd's and convert them to MP3's so I could load a few into my juke to work on my skins.

My problems are similar.

1) When I put some MP3's on the juke and they worked.

2) I added ITunes to the box and started to rip 5 CD's for testing. The first think I noticed was the ripped CD's showed the songs totally out of order. I double checked the ID tags - they were correct.

    a) I deleted the data base files and let the software rebuild the Database

    b) They were still out of order (BUT in the same crazy order as before) 
    :badmood:

    c) However (adding insult to injury) - this time the correct track numbers
        were showing in the song title. for example it might say:   
        05  02 The raven 
       (when The raven is the 2nd track and now its the new
       5th track! )    :cry:

     d) I rechecked the tags. The raven is track 2 of 11  and all the
         other tracks are correctly numbered in the ID tags. :banghead:

     e) I noticed that one song (the Tell-tail heart) had a hyphen in the name.
        I removed it from the tag - deleted the db files - rebuilt.
        The crazy numbers disappeared,  but... Still - out of order!  :dizzy:

      f) Lastly, I tried drinking 3 LaBatts - that seemed to help.  :cheers:

So...
 
      Is ITunes to blame?
      Does ITunes load tags in a funky way that the Juke can't understand?
      Is it a hyphen in the title?
      Is it too little beer?
     
Here is a screenshot to help, it is Men at work puttin in overtime.
The real tracks - in order - with the song lengths:
1) Who can it be now  (3:20)
2) Be Good Johnny (3:35)
3) Blue for You (3:53)
4) Everything I need (3:35)
5) Maria (4:34)
6) Down Under (3:42)
7) Snakes and ladders (3:17)
8 ) High wire (3:00)
9) No Restrictions (4:28)
10) Man with two hearts (3:55)
 
but this is what shows inside wincab...




Is there a crazy - mix up the title option that I don't know about???

dibb1er:
um, if it helps, i'm not using the album view, but the classic jukebox type view (A1, B1 etc)

the artist tag problem is doing my head in  :banghead:

can't seem to figure out why it is occasionally only grabbing the first letter of the artist name, when the id3 tag has a complete name

jp:
maybe a hint to a solution:
what id-tag are you using,"id-3 v1,or id-3 v2 "
they don't need to be the same( one saying "artist name", the other a letter) you're testing v1 , while jukebox uses v2 ?

dibb1er:

--- Quote from: jp on April 19, 2006, 12:09:14 pm ---maybe a hint to a solution:
what id-tag are you using,"id-3 v1,or id-3 v2 "
they don't need to be the same( one saying "artist name", the other a letter) you're testing v1 , while jukebox uses v2 ?


--- End quote ---

thanks jp, did some testing and wincab didnt seem to like the id3 v2 tags on these particular songs. 

anyone else got any answers to the songs that play real quick and then crash wincab?

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