Bugzilla – Bug 4568
Guess Tags do not work reliably
Last modified: 2007-05-17 16:45:52 UTC
(reference support tmid 15244) From user: using SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 10838 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252 which seems to be the latest stable download It STILL seems unable to do a simple guess about untagged files..... further the results seem random - and they aren't always repeatable. I am trying to do a VERY SIMPLE structure..... My music directory is: E:\D0_Music_LOSSLESS Files are in: E:\D0_Music_LOSSLESS\Artist Name\Album Name\Song Name Sort is set to: ARTIST/ALBUM/TITLE An example: E:\D0_Music_LOSSLESS\Madonna\Like a Virgin\01 - Material Girl.flac It looks like it should be easy to do NO interpretation whatsoever and make ARTIST=Madonna (first level down) ALBUM=Like a Virgin (second level down) TITLE=01 - Material Girl (third level down) All files have had all tags removed....... I removed MP3 tags with Tag and Rename and FLAC tags with TAG.EXE (which comes with FLAC) - they all insist that there are no tags........some files I created from scratch - so they DEFINITELY have NO tags. Everything is in nice heirarchical order... if you walk down the tree under Music Folder everything looks fine. I don't understand why the scanner cannot simply transpose the folder and file names into fields and get it right - it doesn't seem like it should be all that difficult. The tag guesser seems to be trying way too hard somehow to parse things - sometimes it thinks E: is an artist, sometimes not, sometimes it gets things entirely right, then next time entirely wrong, the last pass it decided that D0_Music_LOSSLESS is an album.......... Tags are evil. Everybody uses tags differently. The only way to get nice consistent tags that work is to do them yourself. This makes tags MORE work than simply putting the files into a heirarchical set of folders - since you have to put the files somewhere in an orderly fashion anyway tagging them just makes more work. I would be very happy to have a simple option that just gets it right....... I would prefer an option (maybe a check box) to IGNORE tags even if they are present. My next step will be to find a tagging program that can make tags from directory structures - but it's really annoying to have to do that because scanner can't get it right.........
additionally from user: I would also REALLY like to see an exclude option - to exclude a certain directory - particularly if the guessing problem is not solved soon. This option would allow the user to put new, untagged files or files they have just downloaded (with inconsistent tags) in a temporary location that they could access using the Music Folders tree - allowing them to decide if they want to keep the new files before going to the bother of tagging or retagging them - or, in the case of WAV files, before converting them to FLAC AND THEN tagging them. Just let the user select a specific folder to be EXCLUDED from tag reading and guessing - like C:\Music Folder\Temp
see bug 1604 parsing is currently left to right. bug 1604 suggests a possible fix. highly recommended to have proper tagging where possible, and when WAV is involved, VERY highly recommended to convert to FLAC with tags now that FLAC is supported natively.
This looks like basically a dupe of 1604 to me. The excluding tracks from the library would be a dupe of 2201.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1604 ***