[SOLVED] Music tagging & MPD

Lindgren · 09-17-2023, 05:05 AM

Hi!

For a while I have been quite baffled with the tagging of music and MPD along with it.
I have quite a collection of music which I want in a a fair order, and when something turns up with like "Other" or "Unknown" or similar I want to fix it.

But for some reason the tagging fails on (some) files, It shows up like an actual Genre in one application and something else when I check with another tool, like in the picture attached.. This file was written a long time ago so it's not like it was too fresh for a mpd database update since then, but as you can see my MPD clients (Cantata and ncmpcpp) shows it as "Other" and exiftool says "PsyTrance". I can even tag it with id3v2 again and there are no changes.
Grepping for "Other" on the file gives nothing, so I don't know where it finds the genre to turn up like "Other"??

Anyone knows why it's like this?

boughtonp · 09-17-2023, 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Lindgren

But for some reason the tagging fails on (some) files, It shows up like an actual Genre in one application and something else when I check with another tool, like in the picture attached..

Is it failing on some files or some applications?

i.e. Are you saying a genre of "PsyTrance" will sometimes display correctly and sometimes get replaced with "Other"? Or does setting a genre of "PsyTrance" always get displayed as "Other" in certain applications.

If the former, you need to identify the difference between the files where it occurs and when it doesn't.

If the latter, check the settings and/or documentation of those applications, and if it's not a deliberate feature raise a bug report.

Lindgren · 09-17-2023, 09:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by boughtonp

Is it failing on some files or some applications?

i.e. Are you saying a genre of "PsyTrance" will sometimes display correctly and sometimes get replaced with "Other"? Or does setting a genre of "PsyTrance" always get displayed as "Other" in certain applications.

If the former, you need to identify the difference between the files where it occurs and when it doesn't.

If the latter, check the settings and/or documentation of those applications, and if it's not a deliberate feature raise a bug report.

Just to clarify, it does not have anything to do with 'PsyTrance' specifically, but any genre. I have maybe 30-40 albums showing correctly as 'PsyTrance' but this particular record shows up as 'Other' I just checked, as this Astral Projection record consists of two cd's, one shows up as 'Other' and the other shows up as 'Unknown', still if I check the file with id3v2 it shows the correct genre.

I even thought that perhaps it just didn't update the database thoroughly enough to update this data, but I found it in EasyTag also for example where it also shows up as "Other", whereas in id3info or exiftool it show the actual genre.

Hmm I just came to realize something.. Apparently one can set the genre as 'Jazz' or you can set some other tag as '8' which through some internal list corresponds to 'Jazz', So I would think that (some) files have both settings set differently and depending on the application reading them it will show up depending on which tag the application is set to read...