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FLAC tags of some albums not parsed correctly...

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:46 pm
by flacflac
Hi,
I have several thousand albums on an Apache/Tomcat server running Subsonic 3.7beta1. For some reason, there are a few albums where there are no tags being parsed despite the files being properly tagged. I can open each of these album pages but instead of correctly separating tracktitle and artist and album it displays the filenames:

artist_-_album_-_track_-_title

Has anyone else experienced this? I am unsure what is causing this, as even a re-tag in MP3TAG won't always fix the problem.

Thank you,
flacflac :)

PostPosted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:02 pm
by flacflac
Hmm, nobody out there with tags not properly parsed in Subsonic? :/

PostPosted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:19 pm
by deriksen
Hi,

Looks like we have a few issues with the tag library used for parsing in Subsonic:

http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1946

http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1981

Seems it's gotten a bit out-dated. We might get Sindre to replace it for an alternative in a future release.

/D

Re-encoding helps...

PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:41 am
by flacflac
The log message of "Entagged", the library used to parse the tags always mentioned a defunct header of the FLAC files in question. Testing them with both FLAC Tester and Foobar would not reveal any damages, checksums included at the time of creation of the files also showed no changes. Still, a re-encode (FLAC-to-FLAC) solved the problem - the tags are now read correctly.

This of course is less of an option with an MP3 collection, as you will lose quality this way. "Entagged" is not being developed anymore, is there an alternative, Sindre?

ff

Re: Re-encoding helps...

PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:06 am
by sindre_mehus
flacflac wrote: "Entagged" is not being developed anymore, is there an alternative, Sindre?

Hm, not that I know of. I just had a look at jFLAC, but I don't think they support tag parsing/editing.

Did you look at this one...?

PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:16 pm
by flacflac
This one still seems to be an active project and quite powerful:

http://www.jthink.net/jaudiotagger/index.jsp

Did you look at that one before?

PostPosted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:41 am
by aTommyC
I'm seeing that the search function just fails to find some/most of my FLAC music. I don't know why, but if I search for a specific title, there are no hits.

By browsing the artist/album on the left, I find the song and I'm able to play it. The tag editor also shows the correct tags for the album.

Sindre, if you need access to my server to verify/trace, don't hesitate to PM me.

PostPosted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:21 pm
by flacflac
Try to refresh your index (Admin --> Settings --> Search --> Refresh now).

ff

PostPosted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 3:03 pm
by aTommyC
flacflac wrote:Try to refresh your index (Admin --> Settings --> Search --> Refresh now).

ff


I've done this several times, in addition to the scheduled refresh every night at 03:00. The log never mentions any errors during the refresh either. If I add an mp3 file and refresh the index, it's found as soon as the index is ready.

PostPosted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 4:18 pm
by flacflac
Interesting - if you have a guest access you can pm me and I can test it out.

ff