07-14-2018, 09:23 PM
(07-14-2018, 04:56 AM)DRONE7 Wrote: @Tim "If MPD can't read the tags then all bets are off and something is prolly broke in the files."
Yeah, mpd's a bitch,... everything else on Hughie's little green earth reads .flac tags but mpd.
I will see if MaxK might have a look but won't hold my breath....
Irrespective of that.....as mpd is a bitch and won't work with flac in library view this is why I use Browse view....just saying..
Keep in mind that MPD doesn't directly extract metadata from track files; that's done by the various MPD plugins and their associated helpers for MP3, FLAC, etc., because metadata are encoded in different ways in the various music file formats. There's some intermediary mapping into the Procrustean set of tag types used in the MPD database. It's a conundrum because many of the tag types we know and love are just user-defined strings.
At a guess, different programmers have developed the different plugins and they clearly don't all agree. (Case in point: the potentially useful "name" tag type is extracted by all the plugins I've tested except MP3. The MPD docs say this type is not well-defined, but if all the plugins extracted tags with the name "name", I could use it as a proxy for classical work/composition rather than doing violence to the album tag type.) Beyond specific personalities involved, I'm sure the number of people involved contributes to a general reluctance to change things.
I started investigating the byte-level encodings of metadata in the various music formats and their treatment by MPD some six weeks ago. I got reasonably far along but then was interrupted by what I like to call "real life". I need to finish up so I can post a FAQ here and so I can make a cogent case to the MPD crowd.
Regards,
Kent
