[mythtv] Ideas for MythMusic rewrite

[Paul Harrison]

Christian Szpilfogel wrote:
> Stuart Morgan wrote:
>>> My thoughts:
>>> 1) I would love it if Myth Music could accurately read ID3 tags. My
>>> huge
>>> library is fully tagged and works from all other players/organizers but
>>> 0.21-fixes version of MM can't read many of them. I suspect it is the
>>> ID3 version supported in MM but I haven't looked. ID3 is the best basis
>>> for doing most UI manipulation after that.
>>>     
>>
>> It can read all version 1 and version 2 tags, it has no problem with
>> any of the 3000 mp3 files in my collection nor the dozens of  samples
>> I collected to test it when it was written. I'm going to have to
>> suggest that your tags are in some way broken. However if you feel
>> this isn't the case then you should raise the issue with the author
>> of Taglib.
>>   
> hmmm. ok. I will have to look into this a bit deeper then. I have over
> 60,000 tracks which have all been properly tagged (assisted with
> Jaikoz) and are readable by every media player I have plus MediaMonkey
> and Jinzora. So it is unlikely to be my tags but based on your
> confidence in the reading of ID3 tags then perhaps there is an issue
> somewhere else in the code or my environment. I have noticed the scan
> finishes too quickly (ie. it only takes less than 5 minutes) so
> perhaps something else is failing. It misses half of my genre and
> resorts to a directory path for many files if it finds them at all.
>
> If someone has seen this before then I would appreciate a pointer.
> Otherwise is there a way to raise the debug info in MythMusic so I can
> try and track this down

Not sure if this is still relevant but this reminds me of this old
ticket :- http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3607

Are you using CIFS by any chance?

Paul H.