MinimServer 0.8.3 is now available

[DavidHB]

@magister

If you are only using FLAC files, you should be tagging them in the format native to FLAC, which is Vorbis rather than ID3. I understand that the files can actually contain tags in both formats, but that this confuses some software, and leads to uncertainties as to which tag is actually being amended.

It is probably best not to target the separator as such, but to use software that writes the whole set of tags correctly. (Incidentally, there is a confusion of terminology here. Sometimes, as in MP3Tag for example, the term 'tag' is used to refer to the whole set of data in a file (corresponding to a record in a database), while more usually the term refers to a single data item (analogous to an individual field within the record).)

Have you used MP3Tag to re-write your tags? It is possible that by editing and saving, the tags will be written in the correct format. I believe that the tags are all re-saved together, so putting a dummy value in a tag you don't use, or otherwise making an edit of no consequence, might do the trick.

Another approach is to use a program such as the dBpoweramp batch converter to 'convert' the files to the same format in a different target folder. Again this will re-write the tag data, hopefully in a compliant format.

Presumably, once the files are compliant, they will not generate errors in MinimServer 0.8.3. I too use FLAC exclusively in my primary music library, and have had no errors.

David