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Title: Tags missing from mp3 files when streaming from .m3u
Post by: morten795 on May 18, 2007, 02:06:41 am

Hi

I am streaming my music from an "edna" (http://edna.sourceforge.net/ (http://edna.sourceforge.net/)) based mp3 server and wanted to try out mediacenter as my client, but it doesn't read the tags from mp3 files when playing back the track. Can this be enabled somehow? or is it a missing feature?

Thanks,
Morten

Title: Re: Tags missing from mp3 files when streaming from .m3u
Post by: Alex B on May 19, 2007, 04:19:42 am

I suppose you mean the duration and title information that can be stored in the entended m3u format. I have not specifically tested this, but as far as I know MC supports only the basic m3u format that lists only the file paths.

Here is some info about the difference: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=65772

Perhaps JRiver could add support for the extended format.

Title: Re: Tags missing from mp3 files when streaming from .m3u
Post by: morten795 on May 19, 2007, 06:11:41 am

No that's not what I mean.

I mean that it doesn't read the tag information from the MP3 file that is currently being streamed (Notice that track number 1 is currently playing and still MC hasn't read the MP3 tag):

(http://tanjaogmorten.mine.nu/mc-stream.jpg)

iTunes and Winamp reads the tag information from the MP3 files being streamed without any problems...

Thanks
Morten

Title: Re: Tags missing from mp3 files when streaming from .m3u
Post by: Alex B on May 19, 2007, 06:34:52 am

MC is designed to populate the field info on import. It does not do a tag reread when playback starts.

I suppose it would be technically possible to read the ID3v2 tags when playback of the streamed media starts because v2 tags are stored in the beginning of the file. The ID3v1 tags are not possible because v1 tags are stored in the end of the file.

Do iTunes and Winamp really show all ID3v2 info that is tagged in the source files, like album, genre, track number etc?

Title: Re: Tags missing from mp3 files when streaming from .m3u
Post by: morten795 on May 19, 2007, 09:33:43 am

Quote from: Alex B on May 19, 2007, 06:34:52 am

Do iTunes and Winamp really show all ID3v2 info that is tagged in the source files, like album, genre, track number etc?

Here's what iTunes displays in the summary and info pages for the same streamed MP3 file:

(http://tanjaogmorten.mine.nu/iTunes-summary.jpg)
(http://tanjaogmorten.mine.nu/iTunes-info.jpg)

I hope you will add this feature to MC12 as well...

Morten

Title: Re: Tags missing from mp3 files when streaming from .m3u
Post by: Alex B on May 19, 2007, 09:49:21 am

It's up to JRiver. I suppose they would like to try a test stream. Do you happen to know a public server that uses the same streaming system?

(BTW, I don't work for JRiver.)

Title: Re: Tags missing from mp3 files when streaming from .m3u
Post by: morten795 on May 19, 2007, 01:19:34 pm

Well I would be happy to create a user on my server for use by a JRiver developer, but I'm sure that they can manage to setup a streaming server themselves (e.g. "edna" http://edna.sourceforge.net/ which is a very simple mp3 server written in python).