[SOLVED] Thumbnail Generator Issue in 9.0.0

[haeckse]

When starting the "Regenerate Album cover thumbnail cache" button, the status info showed that the scanning process got stuck at a particular album and didn't proceed with other files.

This happened with all files that contained an "Commercial URL:" tag in an ID3 v2.4 taglist

After removing the tag from the files with the eye3D tool, the thumbnail cache has been generated without any issues:

Code:

eyeD3 --remove-frame "WCOM" *.mp3

This didn't happen when creating thumbnails for the same MP3 files with the previous moode version 8.3.9

Whoa! Talk about an edge case. What alerted you to this particular metadata item?

If you zip up one of two offending MP3 files, post it on some accessible site, and PM me, @Tim Curtis, and @Nutul one or another of us will take a look.

Keep in mind is that if your files are well-formed, the problem likely lies with one or another library on which moOde code depends. We may end up passing the buck.

Regards,
Kent

@TheOldPresbyope 

Well, I'd extracted all the files that made the thumbnail generator get stuck from the library and compared their ID3 tags with those of the files that had been processed without issues. The problematic files differed by the mentioned Commercial-URL tag, pointing to an amazon site that sells the related album.

Over the past 20 years I've used a lot of different tools to rip CDs and pull metadata. Some of them generated an abundance of strange meta tags, like iTunes for example.
But I have cleaned up my library now, so it is not an issue for me anymore. But maybe the root cause can be identified to make the metadata parser more imune to such peculiar tags, so that the thumbnail generator doesn't get stuck.

I'll send you an PM with a link to a file that causes the problem.

This is the ID3 data of the song:

Code:

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Time: 05:50    MPEG1, Layer III    [ 256 kb/s @ 44100 Hz - Stereo ]
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ID3 v2.4:
title: Jupp
artist: Bap
album: Fuer Usszeschnigge
album artist: Bap
recording date: 1981
track: 5        genre: Deutschrock (id None)
Publisher/label: Emi Int'l
Commercial URL: http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=B00000I3C7%26tag=softpointer-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/o/ASIN/B00000I3C7%253FSubscriptionId=0RXJS26C80QSDEB56CR2
FRONT_COVER Image: [Size: 27034 bytes] [Type: image/jpg]
Description:

Regards,
Andrea