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Title: Problem with MC10 reading ID3v2 tags
Post by: starb on April 15, 2004, 01:30:33 pm

Hi, just downloaded the trial version of MC10 and tried to import a few songs to the library and it doesn't seem to read ID3v2 tags.  Is this a trial-version limited feature?

Here's the scenario:

Most of my Chinese songs have Unicode in ID3v2 tags, and normal ASCII encoding in ID3v1 tag.  I can't seem to tell MC10 to import the v2 tags, it keeps trying to read v1 tags.  It would be nice if v2 has higher precedence over v1.

Next, I remove the ID3v1 tags, hoping MC10 detect this and will read v2 tags instead.  Instead, the songs imported have empty Artist,Album,Title, etc fields.

Finally, I tell MC10 to remove both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags from a file, and it removed ID3v1 tag fine but v2 tag is still there.

Is there some secrets or options that I need to turn on ID3v2 support? I enabled 'Save' options in the Plugin Manager->input->mp3.

All my ID3v2 tags can be read fine with WMP9, eMusic Tag Editor, and other ID3v2 editors.

Title: Re:Problem with MC10 reading ID3v2 tags
Post by: Matt on April 15, 2004, 02:01:16 pm

ID3v2 (with Unicode characters) should be supported by MC 10.

Please email a file that doesn't work to matt @ jriver.com and we'll see if we can get it fixed.

Thanks.

Title: Re:Problem with MC10 reading ID3v2 tags
Post by: Matt on April 15, 2004, 03:45:49 pm

Thanks for the file.  However, MC reads the tags properly for me.

A few things to try:

1) Check Action Window > File Properties > File Type Info for a complete tag dump -- can you see the info there?

2) Does toggling the locale setting of your Windows install make a difference?

3) What OS are you on?

4) Are you using at least MC 10.0.110?

Thanks.

Title: Re:Problem with MC10 reading ID3v2 tags
Post by: starb on April 15, 2004, 03:52:28 pm

This is strange indeed.  I tried reading the chopped mp3 file and MC10 read the id3v2 tags correctly too.

The full-size mp3 file is 5mb, and MC10 still cannot read it, the File Properties said no ID3v2 tag.  

I don't know if your mailbox can handle 5mb, if so, I will email it again to you.  Thanks.

Title: Re:Problem with MC10 reading ID3v2 tags
Post by: Matt on April 15, 2004, 03:53:23 pm

Mail away.

Thanks :)

Title: Re:Problem with MC10 reading ID3v2 tags
Post by: starb on April 15, 2004, 06:13:13 pm

Hi, I can't send the file, turn out my ISP won't allow 5mb attachments.

However, I have found the source of this problem.

It turns out that all my Chinese mp3 files are named in Unicode.  MC10, for some reason, failed to read ID3v2 tag when mp3 file is named this way.  Once I renamed them to ASCII, MC10 read the ID3v2 tags fine.

I think you should be able to duplicate this easily.  

Title: Re:Problem with MC10 reading ID3v2 tags
Post by: Matt on April 16, 2004, 02:13:23 pm

Thanks.

Should be fixed next build.