From: dean blackketter
Date: Tue Apr 22, 2003  3:48:31  PM US/Pacific
To: slimp3-dev@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [slimp3-dev] bug in web gui? artist name in status_list.html / Pages.pm

The problem is deeper.  The genre cache creates entries with "Unknown"  
if there isn't a specified value for the artist, album, genre  or  
title.  This is fine, except that the ID3 tag cache doesn't do this.   
So, if you try to look up information for a particular song in one  
cache with information from another, it will fail.

Workaround:  Fill out those ID3 tags, folks.

Fix: Unify the info database data so that the two caches match.

Adding to the list...


On Friday, April 18, 2003, at 01:00  PM, Robert Moser II wrote:

That depends on if "Unknown" is an entry in the Genre cache.  What  
seems
to be happening is that {artist} is undefined.  If that should  
translate
to artist=Unknown in the browseid3 URL then change the
[IFN artist]*[/IFN]
to
[IFN artist]Unknown[/IFN]
in the below.

dean blackketter wrote:
Shouldn't all songs without artists have "Unknown" for the artist?

On Wednesday, April 16, 2003, at 04:42  PM, Moser, Robert L. II wrote:


Try this, replace the {%artist} in  the link for the album in
status_list.html with:
{%artist}[IFN artist]*[/IFN]

Which will use * for the artist if one isn't defined for the song.

Similarly for the artist link you could replace {%album} with:
{%album}[IFN album]*[/IFN]