Hi,
This behavior has been introduced in MPD 0.14: When MPD returns an empty
value, it doesn't mean that the tag is empty but that the tag is unknown
(not set in the music file). As a client developer I find this behavior very
useful for example if you want to build a tree like this:
The Doors
----L.A. Woman
----Strange Days
----Unknown Album
It's also useful if some of your music files are badly tagged.
Marc
2009/3/6 Jerome Quelin <jque...@gmail.com>
> On 09/03/06 10:30 +0100, Max Kellermann wrote:
> > On 2009/03/06 10:24, Jerome Quelin <jque...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > definitely sure: i had to update the test-suite of the perl modules
> > > audio::mpd and poe::component::client::mpd to take this into account.
> > >
> > > i'm not saying it's right or wrong, but it has definitely changed
> >
> > Ok, so let's talk about whether it's right or wrong. Does it make any
> > sense to have an empty string in a tag value? Should MPD discard the
> > whole tag item in this case?
> >
> > My opinion: kill empty values.
>
> that's also my opinion, but then i can understand people wanting to have
> empty values. indeed, they would not be able to say whether all songs
> have an album, or if some don't have an album.
>
> in the end, i don't really care. just pick a behaviour and stick with
> it. i would hate to have to update the test suite every mpd version! :-)
>
> jérôme
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