[Musicpd-dev-team] MPD reads Artist Tag Incorrectly (could be a bug).

2010-02-25 Thread Sameer Naik
Hi,
I am using mpd-0.15.8-1.fc12.i686 installed via rpms on an fedora 12 machine.

Most of my music collection is in the .m4a format (encoded in iTunes)
and tagged using the picard tagger.
It appears that mpd is reading the Composer tag in the tag as the
Artist. For example, for a particular file the tag reads :
http://web6.twitpic.com/img/68993695-66bb9631dd0dbc57b0139cc8a6d9bd61.4b8530b5-scaled.png
(screenshot of amarok displaying the file info)

for the same file, the mpd.db database entry reads :
http://web1.twitpic.com/img/68994723-504bd2387c4e9f92352779623126d1b9.4b8531ed-full.png

As you can see, mpd says the artist is Eddie Vedder, when actually
it is Pearl Jam is the Artist and Eddie Vedder is the Composer (or
maybe the primary song writer).

This is the problem with most of my music collection. As a result the
MPD client will display an extended list of Artists, making it
difficult to look for a particular album by a particular artist, this
also effect the last.fm submissions (via mpdscribble).

Is this an known issue and fixed in some newer release of mpd or is
there something that needs to be corrected in the mpd configuration.

Please advice.

Thanks  Regards
~Sameer

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Re: [Musicpd-dev-team] MPD reads Artist Tag Incorrectly (could be a bug).

2010-02-25 Thread Sameer Naik
Hi,
You can find a test file here
http://download.damagehead.com/samples/11%20The%20End.m4a.
The m4a file is AAC.
Through my investigation i figured that mpd uses ffmpeg to read tags
(atleast in this case), so i decided to find out what sort of tags
ffplay dumps and heres what is says:

--OUTPUT START
  Metadata
major_brand : M4A
minor_version   : 0
compatible_brands: M4A mp42isom
title   : The End
author  : Eddie Vedder
album   : Backspacer
genre   : Rock
track   : 11
year: 2009-09
--OUTPUT END

ffplay does not display any artist, but instead prints the author,
which is what mpd is probably picking on.
Hope this helps...

Regards
~Sameer

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Max Kellermann m...@duempel.org wrote:
 On 2010/02/24 15:13, Sameer Naik sameer.subscripti...@damagehead.com wrote:
 Hi,
 I am using mpd-0.15.8-1.fc12.i686 installed via rpms on an fedora 12 machine.

 Most of my music collection is in the .m4a format (encoded in iTunes)
 and tagged using the picard tagger.

 What kind of m4a is this?  ALAC or AAC?

 Can you send me a demo file, please?

 It appears that mpd is reading the Composer tag in the tag as the
 Artist. For example, for a particular file the tag reads :
 http://web6.twitpic.com/img/68993695-66bb9631dd0dbc57b0139cc8a6d9bd61.4b8530b5-scaled.png
 (screenshot of amarok displaying the file info)

 for the same file, the mpd.db database entry reads :
 http://web1.twitpic.com/img/68994723-504bd2387c4e9f92352779623126d1b9.4b8531ed-full.png

 Empty page on these URLs.


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Re: [Musicpd-dev-team] MPD reads Artist Tag Incorrectly (could be a bug).

2010-02-25 Thread Max Kellermann
On 2010/02/24 15:13, Sameer Naik sameer.subscripti...@damagehead.com wrote:
 Hi,
 I am using mpd-0.15.8-1.fc12.i686 installed via rpms on an fedora 12 machine.
 
 Most of my music collection is in the .m4a format (encoded in iTunes)
 and tagged using the picard tagger.

What kind of m4a is this?  ALAC or AAC?

Can you send me a demo file, please?

 It appears that mpd is reading the Composer tag in the tag as the
 Artist. For example, for a particular file the tag reads :
 http://web6.twitpic.com/img/68993695-66bb9631dd0dbc57b0139cc8a6d9bd61.4b8530b5-scaled.png
 (screenshot of amarok displaying the file info)
 
 for the same file, the mpd.db database entry reads :
 http://web1.twitpic.com/img/68994723-504bd2387c4e9f92352779623126d1b9.4b8531ed-full.png

Empty page on these URLs.

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