(18-06-2014 12:43)adrian Wrote:  I'm using Puddletag to edit my tags and I selected a set of files and entered the genre by typing in "Folk". But when I navigate my genre list I find that some of the tracks are showing up as "Folk" and some as "(80)Folk". I think I get similar behavior for Bluegrass. I guess this has to do with the use of numerical genre codes? (I have a mixture of flac and mp3 and so it's possible that all the mp3 are showing up under the one heading and the flac under the other. I didn't have time to investigate further.)

I don't want to see numerical genre codes, so I'm wondering what the solution is. Is this a tagging problem? Or is it a server setting problem?

(18-06-2014 16:16)simoncn Wrote:  

(18-06-2014 12:43)adrian Wrote:  I'm using Puddletag to edit my tags and I selected a set of files and entered the genre by typing in "Folk". But when I navigate my genre list I find that some of the tracks are showing up as "Folk" and some as "(80)Folk". I think I get similar behavior for Bluegrass. I guess this has to do with the use of numerical genre codes? (I have a mixture of flac and mp3 and so it's possible that all the mp3 are showing up under the one heading and the flac under the other. I didn't have time to investigate further.)

I don't want to see numerical genre codes, so I'm wondering what the solution is. Is this a tagging problem? Or is it a server setting problem?

For a file with an ID3v2.3 tag, the TCON frame value "(80)Folk" will be accepted by MinimServer as the genre "Folk", as defined by the ID3v2.3 specification. If you are seeing "(80)Folk" in MinimServer's list of genres, this suggests you have the genre value "(80)Folk" in some files that don't use ID3v2.3 tags. This would be a tagging problem.

(18-06-2014 21:56)adrian Wrote:  I am completely confused about what is going on. The problem is mp3 files. They appear to have ID3v2.4 tags. I'm working under Linux and tried id3, id3v2, and id3tool and none of them find the tag. The eyeD3 program and easy tag (like puddletag) show the tags but don't give any indication that there is a numerical id, nor do they give any indication that the "(80)Folk" files are any different from the "Folk" files. The only way I have found to tell the files apart is to use MinimServer.

(19-06-2014 05:23)simoncn Wrote:  

(18-06-2014 21:56)adrian Wrote:  I am completely confused about what is going on. The problem is mp3 files. They appear to have ID3v2.4 tags. I'm working under Linux and tried id3, id3v2, and id3tool and none of them find the tag. The eyeD3 program and easy tag (like puddletag) show the tags but don't give any indication that there is a numerical id, nor do they give any indication that the "(80)Folk" files are any different from the "Folk" files. The only way I have found to tell the files apart is to use MinimServer.

For ID3v2.4, the (80) genre notation is no longer valid. It seems that the tagging program that wrote the ID3v2.4 tags isn't aware of this difference between ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4. Here is the relevant extract from the ID3v2.4 spec:

TCON
The 'Content type', which ID3v1 was stored as a one byte numeric value only, is now a string. You may use one or several of the ID3v1 types as numerical strings, or, since the category list would be impossible to maintain with accurate and up to date categories, define your own. Example: "21" $00 "Eurodisco" $00