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On 5/6/2021 at 11:24 AM, andrewilley said:
The use of null separators in text fields is defined in the ID3v2.4 spec, but the file header data indicates it is ID3v2.3 so technically they should not be there. I think this is common usage in the wild though, so maybe @maxmp could modify the scanner code to accept ID3 null byte separators?
So how can I fix this? I use Foobar and mp3tag to tag my files, does anybody know how to tag "correctly" using these tools to avoid the null byte? I guess I could load all the files into Tagscanner, but that's an annoying step.
On 5/6/2021 at 11:24 AM, andrewilley said:By the way, while I was looking at the file I also noticed the use of TXXX "(Band)<null> 2pac" to provide the band name, however there is no TPE2 (Album Artist) tag present. Album Artist would be a lot more useful for grouping your songs in cases where they have varying Track Artist names.
Not sure I understand this, in Mp3tag there is already an ALBUMARTIST field present (see attached)?
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+1, I've also got some keywords stored in comments that I'd love to be able to search. I do "make up" my own genres and put them in the genre tab though, genres are inherently subjective so I don't find it to be such a huge issue. And it's a huge help to quickly search for certain "mood" music, as you also mentioned.
On 5/7/2021 at 6:39 PM, andrewilley said:The potentially larger tags (Comment, Lyrics, etc) are not retained in the database for every song in the Library, so searching through them would presumably mean opening and reading the contents of every single file again, which would be impractically slow on any decent sized music collection.
There should be an option implemented where you can choose for the database to incorporate larger tags. Music players such as Foobar search comment tags too, so it should be possible for Power Amp to too.
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+1, it should be an option inside settings though.
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49 minutes ago, andrewilley said:
That is usually down to encoding/compatibility issues in the ID3 tags. Unlike Vorbis (FLAC files), the ID3 spec only supports one instance of each tag type, so the convention is to split items using a text separator symbol (like a semicolon). However it's also possible for tag editors to save the tag using a null character separator, which might be causing the effect your are seeing. What does Info/Tags show for one of those songs, is each individual artist shown as a separate underlined name? And do the names show up correctly as individual entries in the Artists listing?
Andre
No, the artist names are just listed one after another separated with spaces, with one continuous underline. They don't show up as individual entries in Artists.
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I know this is an old thread but just read through it and sounds like a really nice feature so +1 from me, for what it's worth.
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36 minutes ago, andrewilley said:
Yes, you need to do a FULL Rescan after changing anything in the splitting modes.
You can see the collaboration artist details in the Songs lists. So just search for two terms, e.g. "Olivia Travolta".
Andre
This is weird, for some reason my mp3 files are not showing multiple artists correctly like yours. They're demarcated with a space, instead of a semicolon. Flac files are fine.
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Ah, good to know. Still, however, it would add a bit of convenience to have them both show up under artists when you type in just "olivia". I know, I know, not a huge thing but...still something I'd like to see.
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Aha, you were right, I figured out the problem! After enabling artist split, you need to do a "Full Rescan", not just a standard Rescan - then it shows up like in your player. It had nothing to do with tagging (I tried adding a space before and after ; in a file and it doesn't make a difference)
However, now I've got the opposite issue, I actually liked having both the groups and artists showing up in search 😄. E.g. in your example, you've only got "Olivia Newton-John" showing up in Artist when you search for olivia, but it's convenient to also have "Olivia Newton-John; John Travolta" showing up, because then you can quickly select all the songs with both Olivia and Travolta as artists, and exclude songs with only Olivia as the artist.
So I guess that's my new feature request: In the search results, please show every multiple ARTIST field of songs containing the artist you searched for.
Oh and thanks so much for taking the time Andre!
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I'm running build 905 (latest update). I've just tried enabled artist splitting, added ";" symbol, done a rescan and it doesn't make a difference.
To be clear, I'm happy with how the search shows the results (except for incorrect mp3 demarcation), I just wanted the search function to show all songs containing the artist when I click the artist name, including songs with multiple ARTIST fields, not only songs solely tagged with that artist.
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That's weird, it does for me, check attached.
EDIT: I just noticed that multiple artist fields in .mp3 files are still not demarcated with ; whereas .flac files show up correctly now.
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Hey all, got a feature request! Currently in Poweramp if you do a search for an artist and click the artist name, all the songs tagged solely with that artist will show up. However if you have songs with multiple artist tagged, those will NOT show up, even though the artist has been in tagged in those songs.
Example; tag one song with "Lauryn Hill" in the ARTIST field and another song with "Fugees; Lauryn Hill" in the ARTIST field. Do a search for Lauryn Hill in Poweramp, it will show the artists "Lauryn Hill" and "Fugees; Lauryn Hill". So far so good. However if you click Lauryn Hill it ONLY shows the song tagged solely with Lauryn Hill, whereas I would like a feature where it also shows the song tagged Fugees; Lauryn Hill - ie it should show every single song tagged with Lauryn Hill in the ARTIST field.
Hope I'm making sense.
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Hey, would like to request an option to hide the Album Name in list view and play view.
Improved search function with multiple ARTIST fields
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Thanks. Would you recommend I update all my mp3s to ID3v2.4? In the settings there is an option to write ID3v2.4. I think the reason I didn't select it was I read somewhere that some players had trouble interpreting ID3v2.4 correctly, so ID3v2.3 had best compatibility. But tbh I only use foobar and Poweramp and I think both of them are fine with ID3v2.4, except for PA and the multiple ARTIST fields.