Bugzilla – Bug 2668
no genre data on tracks generated from external cue + flac
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:39:24 UTC
All tracks from external cue sheets (referencing flac files) are showing no genre information. Year/Artist/Album etc. information is all accurate. This did work on previous versions of the slimServer software.
Please attach a cue sheet that's causing this issue.
Chris - is this still happening? Could you attach a cue sheet that's causing this? Thanks
i think i have nailed down the problem. There are two areas where genre can be stored. The genre can be held in the flac file itself (as a tag) OR can be held in the cue file as a comment (REM field). I believe what is happening here is that the tracks generated by the cue sheet are looking in only the cue sheet for the genre info. They do not look in the flac file itself. My older files only have the genre stored in the flac file itself, therefore the genre is showing up as "no genre". Newer files created with EAC are smart enough to include the genre REM field, so my new cue files do have this information. These are the files in my library that do have the genre field showing up correctly. The interesting thing is that you are looking in the flac file for the year information (this is showing up correctly, even with cue sheets that do not have the Year REM field). I suppose if you are doing this for year, it is possible to do it with genre. Let me know if this is enough information to proceed with the fix, or if you are not going to proceed with the fix at all. Chris
Created attachment 1124 [details] old cue without year and genre comments in cases like this, i think the software should look in the referenced flac file for the genre and year information
Created attachment 1125 [details] newer EAC (Exact Audio Copy) cue sheet with genre and year info this is a file that is working properly. it is included for reference on the changes in REM info provided by the new EAC (genre year info)
Fixed in change 8187 - will be in the 2006-06-29 6.5 nightly.