10-30-2024, 10:51 PM
What you see in the Track info listing is metadata after it has passed through MPD and moOde routines.
When I'm diagnosing metadata issues I prefer to see what's actually encoded in the file containing the audio track.
In the case of FLAC files, the tool metaflac is useful (and included in every moOde installation). We want to see only the metadata, which is encoded in a Vorbis comment block and there is an option to do just that.
As an example, here's the command applied to the Stereo Test track included in every moOde installation:
IMHO, the concept of "artist" is laughably ill-defined. I wish musicologists had banded together to define some sensible metadata fields before digital distribution of audio became a thing, but it didn't happen.
Regards,
Kent
When I'm diagnosing metadata issues I prefer to see what's actually encoded in the file containing the audio track.
In the case of FLAC files, the tool metaflac is useful (and included in every moOde installation). We want to see only the metadata, which is encoded in a Vorbis comment block and there is an option to do just that.
As an example, here's the command applied to the Stereo Test track included in every moOde installation:
Code:
rho@moode914:~ $ metaflac --list --block-type=VORBIS_COMMENT /mnt/SDCARD/'Stereo Test'/LRMonoPhase4.flac
METADATA block #2
type: 4 (VORBIS_COMMENT)
is last: false
length: 322
vendor string: reference libFLAC 1.3.1 20141125
comments: 13
comment[0]: ENCODER=X Lossless Decoder 20161007
comment[1]: TITLE=LR Channel And Phase
comment[2]: ARTIST=Koz
comment[3]: ALBUM=Stereo Test
comment[4]: GENRE=Utilities
comment[5]: ALBUMARTIST=Koz
comment[6]: TRACKNUMBER=1
comment[7]: TRACKTOTAL=1
comment[8]: TOTALTRACKS=1
comment[9]: DATE=1997
comment[10]: TITLESORT=LR Channel And Phase
comment[11]: ARTISTSORT=Koz
comment[12]: ALBUMSORT=Stereo Test
rho@moode914:~ $IMHO, the concept of "artist" is laughably ill-defined. I wish musicologists had banded together to define some sensible metadata fields before digital distribution of audio became a thing, but it didn't happen.
Regards,
Kent
