Multiple tags delimiter (e.g. Genre or Artist) syntax

[Budgie]

(19-12-2012 08:04)simoncn Wrote:  

(19-12-2012 01:19)Budgie Wrote:  Hi Simon,
The above is clear but I have run into problems because I tried to use \\ as delimiter when using Easytag and you have seen the results in my log file. I hope I can get round to re-tagging using Puddletag which works like Mp3tag but is there a way of looking at the tags in console so I can see and check that the lines
GENRE=
GENRE=
exist in the file rather than using the "indirect" tagging programme? For example how do you examine the actual tags in file?
Budgie

This apparently simple question is actually very difficult because of the different tagging formats that are used for different types of files. I'm not aware of any program that does a good job for this for all file types. I use a hex editor to look at file tags, but this requires extensive knowledge of the low-level tagging formats used by different types of files.

The following should work:

1) Put a single file into a test directory
2) Start MinimServer
3) Change contentDir to point to the test directory, and set the writeAllTags property to an output filename
4) Restart MinimServer
5) The output file whose name you set for writeAllTags will contain all the tagging information for that single file

Hi Simon,
I thought I would start on cleaning up my tagging using the minimserver log info to point me to problem files. I had assumed the issue had been caused by the undocumented delimiter that EasyTag inserted when I used the " - " sequence. If the same file is looked at in PuddleTag then sure enough the \\ delimiter is shown and I had these in the album titles of the problem albums. I cleaned them all out for a couple of albums by inserting an underscore instead, uploaded corrected versions to NAS and restarted minimserver but the same error message appears.

I then did as you suggested above with a test file and the tags look fine

Quote:ALBUM=Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosi_Libro VIII (René Jacobs)
ARTIST=Jacobs, René
COMPOSER=Monteverdi, Claudio
DATE=2002
GENRE=Vocal
TITLE=Canti guerrieri Sinfonia_Altri canti d'Amore, tenero arceiro
TRACKNUMBER=001

Are there any illegal characters such as : or other issues which could be the cause of the problem when minimserver scans the content directory?

Regards,
Budgie.