Bugzilla – Bug 1916
Text in "Multiple Items In Tags" breaks the handling of WAV files
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:24:11 UTC
If you put a semicolon in the server setting option: "Multiple Items In Tags" Any files not tagged dont get read properly, ie they end up lost in "no artist, no album". This is basically any WAV file, all other tagged file types get handled correctly. As long as there is nothing in the "Multiple Items In Tags" field, works fine.
I'll take a look at this for 6.2 As a work-around, I highly suggest encoding your WAV files to FLAC, and tagging them appropriately.
The easier workaround was to bin the ";"!! I only tried it with one track to see what it did so no big deal for me for now anyways... Way too many WAV's to even consider flac'ing them all, in any case prefer to stick with WAV for the time being..
So, you rely on the GuessTags to organise the metadata? Do you have any d_info logs that you can provide showing any of the WAV's in question? Of course, these would have to be logs during a rescan w/ clear library while you have the ; in the Multiple Items In Tags pref
Created attachment 742 [details] D-Log
Hi, Attached the d_log info as requested. Correct below, using GuessTags for most of my collection, normally works pretty good. Some info, with ";" set slimserver finds, 294 albums, 4104 songs, 145 artists without ";" set, 294 albums, 4104 songs, 1242 artists You can see it looses a bunch of artists. I have a mixture of discrete WAV's, EAC style WAV CDimage with Cue sheets, discrete FLAC's and some MP3's. This was with a recent nightly download. Let me know if there is anything else I can check.
This is working for me after checking in the large VA / Multiple Artists in tags patch. Try the latest 6.2 nightly. Barring that, I strongly recommend adding tags to your data - either ID3 directly in the WAV files, or more flexibly, convert those to FLAC and tag. Guessing tags from filenames is just that - guessing!