Phil Meyer;155885 Wrote:
> 1. Scanning custom tags
> Over the years, I have used mp3Tag to enter artist names in a tag
> called "ORIGARTIST". I think this is a normal mp3 tag, as it was one
> of the default tag names in the list that mp3Tag provides. I have
> entered customtags=ORIGARTIST in th
Phil Meyer;155989 Wrote:
> >Unfortunately it seems like the slimserver tag reading method doesn't
> >read some of the custom tags which are part of the MP3 standard. The
> >ORIGARTIST is one of the tags that aren't read. The good idea is the
> >MP3 library which slimserver uses is able to read al
Phil Meyer;156014 Wrote:
>
>
> >In the Plugins/Custom Scan page in the web interface beside the
> Amazon
> >scanning module.
> Do you mean Server Settings -> Plugins -> Custom Scan? If so, I can't
> see any Amazon scanning module on that page.No, not in server settings, there
> is a Custom Sc
Phil Meyer;155885 Wrote:
>
> 3. LastFM Tags
> I have items in my LastFM Tags custom browse menu, and it generally
> works well. However, some of the tags (not many) produce no entries.
> I believe I had a similar problem with LastFM Similar Artists, which
> you fixed. I haven't found any arti
Phil Meyer;157554 Wrote:
> I saw that you released a new version of custom scan that handles more
> mp3 tags. I tried it to see if it could read ORIGARTIST. I got some
> entries listed in a customscan_customtags menu that I configured to
> pick ORIGARTIST tags.
>
> ...
>
> Only the "Royal Phi
Phil Meyer;157752 Wrote:
> One other minor point - the ORIGARTIST list isn't sorted by ARTISTSORT.
> Where the artist has been tagged as an artist in the main library, could
> it use the ARTISTSORT for that entry?In Custom Scan 1.9 just released you can
> specify a sorting tag for each
custom t
Phil Meyer;157997 Wrote:
> Slimserver handles similar situations by using the artistsort of
> contributing artists when they are present, otherwise not using a sort.
> Eg. for BAND, COMPOSER, etc. I was thinking that when scaning for
> ORIGARTIST tags, it could look for the artist in the slimser
>Unfortunately it seems like the slimserver tag reading method doesn't
>read some of the custom tags which are part of the MP3 standard. The
>ORIGARTIST is one of the tags that aren't read. The good idea is the
>MP3 library which slimserver uses is able to read all the tags if used
>with some other
> Not a bug, maybe a feature request.
>I think there is a feature request that describes that slimserver should store
>custom tags
>(approximately the same functionality as the Custom Scan plugin provides).
>
I am wondering if I should perhaps enter a feature request for slimserver to
handle ORI
>I think I was wrong in this statement, this problem should already have
>been corrected in Custom Browse 1.9.
>Have you tried to recreate the menu so you don't have an old menu
>configuration for LastFM Tags from Custom Browse 1.8 ?
>
I recreated the LastFM Tags menu and I haven't come across any
>Unfortunately it seems like the slimserver tag reading method doesn't
>read some of the custom tags which are part of the MP3 standard. The
>ORIGARTIST is one of the tags that aren't read.
>
I saw that you released a new version of custom scan that handles more mp3
tags. I tried it to see if it
> Try the Custom Scan 1.7 and Custom Browse 1.13.1 releases, there where
>some problems related to character encodings that I think might be
>causing the problem you had.
>
That did the trick - thanks very much.
I now have a list of Artists/Albums/Songs in my library that are marked with an
ORIG
>There is a "Custom Artist Tags" menu type available in the just released
>1.8 version of Custom Scan that does this.
Marvellous!
One other minor point - the ORIGARTIST list isn't sorted by ARTISTSORT. Where
the artist has been tagged as an artist in the main library, could it use the
ARTISTSO
>I'm not sure if this will work for you but I felt that using ARTISTSORT
>might not be a good idea since the original artist might not exist as
>ARTIST/ARTISTSORT in slimserver, as an example this would be the case
>if you only own the cover albums and not the albums from the original
>artist.
Tha
Seems to work well. I don't seem to have many artists with missing ARTISTSORT
tags, so not many ORIGARTISTSORT tags need to be added (although I suspect I
have lots of missing ORIGARTIST tags - I need to trawl through my collection to
correctly identify cover songs).
Thanks a lot for this enha
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