Torben (and forummers),
Some MP3 tag’s are not recognized by the database when importing them. For example:
But, when I take a look at MP3TAG (also a great German product ;)) the tags are there:
The only thing I discovered is that I added a mAirList tag by the cue editor before. However: the title, artist and duration and filled in there as well.
What do I miss? Is it an option which I should set or was the alcohol of last night causing this? :
Please upload one of those files somewhere and sent the download link to info@mairlist.com. I will investigate it.
Done, sent 2 examples.
Ok, it appears that the files do have a “MAIRLIST” TXXX tag (where mAirList stores its XML data), but the contents of the tags are invalid.
In particular, I notice that the case of the XML nodes is not correct - it’s using lower case node names and values all over:
<playlistitem Class="file"><title>lucky Strike</title><artist>maroon 5</artist><type>music</type><duration>185.613</duration><attributes><item><name>year</name><value>2014</value></item></attributes><markers><marker Type="cuein" Position="0.000"/><marker Type="ramp1" Position="6.875"/><marker Type="startnext" Position="184.744"/><marker Type="fadeout" Position="185.139"/><marker Type="cueout" Position="185.613"/></markers></playlistitem>Actually this should look rather like this:
<PlaylistItem Class="File"><Title>...</Title>...</PlaylistItem>As XML is case-sensitive, mAirList is not able to extract any information from the tags (but does not read the “native” ID3 tags either later - because there was a mAirList-specific TXXX tag).
How did you create those tags in the first place? Not with mAirList I assume? mAirList always uses the correct case.
You’re right. I renamed the Artist and Title tag (with MP3tag) with capitals and the database was able to import it again the right way.
I created the tags with already an older version of Mairlist. (Export to File tag from the Cue Editor).
However, any modification afterwards with the current version of MairList wasn’t saved in the MairList tag. I removed the tag completely and added it again in the database, only with Artist and Title tag generated with MP3Tag. (Filename to Tag function). Then I did again “Export to File tag” and it went well (all with capitals).
In the end: the problem lays at MP3Tag (so: ME :’( ) . There is a action which I use, called “Case conversion”. What it SHOULD do is renaming the file and tags and capitalize each first character. But, under water he touches the MairList tag as well by lower casing all the tags being used. So, I have to review it.
Problem solved. Well…almost.
Thanks for your support.
Thanks for the feedback. I had absolutely no idea what would have caused those lower case tags. Even older mAirLists never did that.
Big fat warning to all who intend to use this feature of MP3Tag.