Rockbox

  • Status Closed
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  • Task Type Bugs
  • Category Music playback
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  • Operating System
  • Severity Very Low
  • Priority Defer
  • Reported Version Daily build (which?)
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Attached to Project: Rockbox
Opened by tracktheripper - 2003-01-16
Last edited by bagder - 2003-12-05

FS#768 - ID3 tags being mis-read or not being read at all.

I have a Jukebox Recorder 10 and im using the latest
Bleeding Edge of the Rockbox firmware and im using
the Archos firmware 1.27d for my recording and playlist
duties.

When using Rockbox for playback sometimes it mis-
reads ID3 tags, e.g J. Lo comes out as J. Lot or J. Loz
or sometimes it fails to show the ID3 tag altogether.
When loading up the MP3 into Musicmatch, Windows
Media Player, Winamp or even the Archos firmware the
tags read fine. Even re-entering the tag with
Musicmatch’s tag editor results in the same problem.

The only way to get round it is to decode the MP3 back
to WAV (to remove all tags) re-encode it back to MP3
then re-apply the tag, then Rockbox reads it fine, but I
have a feeling that decoding an MP3 back to WAV then
re-encoding it to MP3 causes some quality loss.

Please fix this minor flaw, then Rockbox will be bang-on
perfect!!!

Closed by  bagder
2003-12-05 09:39
Reason for closing:  Works For Me

Can you post some sample mp3's you are having a problem with somewhere and let us know? We need to be able to test this for ourselves to try and find the prob.

I suspect it may be your files.

well Adiamas I went through my MP3s. The files freshly
ripped from CDs using Musicmatch are fine. Before I bought
Musicmatch I was using a basic freeware program called
Freerip which I believe uses the old crappy Blade codec.
(Musicmatch uses the modern Fraunhofer codec)

So i believe files made from Freerip may be the source of the
problem.

Cheers for your help though.

Project Manager
zagor commented on 2003-01-17 10:54

We still need a failing file to fix the problem.

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