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diegs
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 Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:22 am Post subject: Perplexing XMMS and beep media player playlist problem |
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I have an interesting problem in both xmms and beep. It occurred in an old version of xmms, and i upgraded when a new version entered portage, and that one is affected the same way. The playlist and main scrolling title list some song titles all garbled! If you go to "view file info" the ID3 info is all correct.
Let me show you a picture...
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Anyone know what compile-time flag or something might be causing this? Annoying as hell...
TIA
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anyone?
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zerojay
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| I have the exact same problem with xmms so I tried to switch to beep. It segfaults whenever I click anywhere so.. bleh. |
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zerojay
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I seemed to discover what the problem is. It happens in certain mp3s with ID3v2 tags. A temporary fix for mp3s that are coming up scrambled if they also have ID3v1 tags is to disable ID3v2 tags globally. I opened up Preferences -> Audio I/O Plugins tab -> MPEG Layer 1/2/3 Player -> Configure -> Title tab -> Disable ID3V2 tags.
Maybe you might want to try the MAD plugin and see if it has the same problems. I don't know what the problem could be. I had stopped using XMMS for quite a while and used Juk and AmaroK and then when I went back, I noticed that some of the tags went funny. I think perhaps I had updated the tag library since I had compiled XMMS last. Well, it still seems to happen with 1.2.10.. so.. I don't know. |
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befortin
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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Great!! 
It works for me ! |
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diegs
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| Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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nice! except for no more id3v2... which is ok because the tag editor doesn't even support the damn things.
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a permanent solution would be to re-tag all these songs - or simply *cough* downloading *cough* songs with correct tags 
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diegs
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they're tagged correctly i am thoroughly sure. used to use the same songs under iTunes on windows. And I don't know if Rhythmbox reads ID3v2, but it reports everything correctly.
And I like ID3v2 for one reason and one reason only: longer field lengths. Most of my titles don't fit in v1.
But I really wonder what the flock is going on...
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