Bugzilla – Bug 320
COMMENT keyword in "Title Format"
Last modified: 2008-12-18 11:53:30 UTC
If the COMMENT keyword is included in "Title Format", for example, "TITLE (ARTIST) - COMMENT", a group of "hex words" follows instead of the appropriate comments. This also happens if there are no comments to display. Regardless of whether there are comments or not, the number of hex words varies from three to ten.
using COMMENT works for me. Many of mine have allmusic.com reviews in the comments and they come out just fine (although huge). What program are you suing for tagging?
sorry...using for tagging
iTunes 4.5 is used for tagging
Changing the skin does not make a difference. However, Tag&Rename works fine.
Dave: can you attach a smallish example MP3 file that exhibits this behavior?
The smallest file that I have that exhibits this feature is 1.2Mb - is this too large?
that would be fine.
I'm having problems sending the mp3 file to you as an attachment to this bug report (hangs Internet Explorer and dumps several pages worth of garbage) - may I send it via e-mail? If so, please let me know which address to send it to.
Dave, go ahead and send the file to vidur@slimdevices.com and I'll try to recreate the problem.
I noticed this behaviour on some of my iTunes 4.6 managed files as well (using Slimserver 5.2.1 now). Going back into iTunes and changing anything within the comments field and saving would fix it all the time. (In addition to that I selected all songs with an empty comment field in iTunes and entered a single character, like a dash, to avoid the hex numbers for these files.) Alexander.
Need an example to test.
This problem seems due to iTunes (mis-)using a comment field to store its "Sound Check" information. When Sound Check is turned on, iTunes adds a second comment with the descriptor "iTunNORM" and stores volume information with the gelp of those HEX words. Slimserver seems to only read the first available comment, instead of reading the comment with a blank descriptor, which usually contains the text one enters as "real" comment. Hope this helps. Alexander.
please attach a sample song with comments such as these.
iTunes 4.9, turned on SoundCheck and waited. Loaded up mp3's into hex editor to verify that iTunesNORM exists. Rescanned with cleared library. I see no hexits as part of the COMMENT, neither in player display or in the songinfo page. Either this was not the cause, the new infoformat has fixed this issue, or iTunes has reworked the placement of this tag info in such a way as to remove the issue. Marking as fixed. Can be re-opened if sample files can be provided that still exhibit this problem
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