Hello, I hope you had the chance to download the file mentioned my earlier mail. I would be deleting it from the server for obvious reasons.
Regards ~Sameer On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Sameer Naik <sameer.subscripti...@damagehead.com> wrote: > 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. >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Musicpd-dev-team mailing list Musicpd-dev-team@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/musicpd-dev-team
