Similarity Forum
General Category => Wishlist => Topic started by: surbaniak on May 08, 2009, 21:23:35
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I know this one may not make it to the top of the priority list, but here is the pattern I have noticed on a number of my duplicate resolutions:
SongA is a true duplicate of SongB but =
SongA
Artist:ABC
Title:XYZ
Album:PQR
Rate:64kbit
SongB
Artist:<blank>
Title:<blank>
Album:<blank>
Rate:320kbit
So now I have to open each one a few times in Winamp to Copy-Paste the tag info from the poor quality SongA to the one I want to keep SongB (because of its superior BitRate). Then I erase SongA.
Very time consuming.
Is there any way a Copy/Move ID3 Tag info Left<-->Right action can be added to Similarity [and best to let the user pick the tags to Move].
Thnx.
Seb
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Thanks for comment.
i think this wish would implementent in future, but not in nearest versions.
Because there some troubles with different mechanism of storing tags (ID3,Vorbis,ASF).
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I noticed one more thing with MP3 tags.
One of the rippers I use, populates ID3v2 very nicely but ID2v1 it sticks garbage strings into (for some stupid reason) ....
and it looks like Similarity is only reading ID2v1, and i get the garbage tag info in Similarity GUI.
Any way around that ?
ex.
ID3v1.Title = þÿ
ID3v2.Title = Good Time (Radio Edit)
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I see what's wrong
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i tested, everything seems to be ok.
i edited tags in winamp, id3v1 different from id3v2, Similarity showed correct id3v2 tags, in win2k,winxp.
can you send me this file where this bug appears ?
similarity don't analyse file for id3v2 tags, it uses Windows Media SDK for taking all information, maybe your grabber write invalid tags ?
Or you maybe didn't install Windows Media Player 9.0 or later, in this case Similarity uses ACM decoder and himself searches ID3v1 tags. In this mode it's not support ID3v2.x tags.
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MP3 file was sent over email.
Have look at what Similarity shows for Artist for example.
Thank you very much.
S
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Let me know if the mail(s) did not make it, if not I will get it to you in a different way.
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Yes i received them, and analyze them, something interesting, Windows Media Player can't play them, and Similarity used ACM decoder, this decoder can only show ID3v1 tags.
I continue research.
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i think this files can't be played in WMP (and decoded by WMF decoder in Similarity) because they contain a UNICODE tags. Windows Media Player Programmers very "kind" and very professional, and of course they don't read standarts (www.id3.org) :)
I think I add support of ID3v2 tags to ACM decoder.
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fixed, will be available in new version.
Problem was not in simple unicode, but it was Little-endian, that is why WMP can't open them.