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[Andre Gosselin]

(08-01-2015 23:12)simoncn Wrote:  

(08-01-2015 20:19)Andre Gosselin Wrote:  Changelog of newly released v2.2.3 of BubbleUPnP reports:

Quote:"fixed description field never shown in metadata dialog

Is this in any way related to the display of the contents of COMMENT tags, which should now be possible since MinimServer update 53 ? If so, should this be automatic or is there a setting to activate inside minimserver ?

Regards

For this to work, you need to include Comment in itemTags or indexTags.

Thanks Simon,
Your advice worked, but I have another problem.
I tend to use the COMMENT tag to store free form multi-line text which is difficult to "formalize" using standard tags. A good example is the cast of an opera. I frequently copy-paste this text from other sources like the album booklet originally in PDF format. I found that, in doing this, I may paste an "illegal" character into the COMMENT tag, which MinimServer reports as follows inside the log file:

Quote:Warning: illegal character 0x01 in COMMENT tag value in file Callas, Maria/Callas- Lyric & Coloratura arias (1954) - etc...

From my observations, it appears that this illegal character is almost always an '0x01' character. Even if this situation is qualified in the log as a "warning", the net result is that the COMMENT tag is then completely ignored by MinimServer, and not sent to the comtrol point (BubbleUPnP in my case).

Unfortunately, trying to isolate those illegal characters in the tag field proves very difficult. I have tried 3 different softwares to help me about that, to no avail (Mp3tag, Foobar, MediaMonkey): all three display the full COMMENT tag contents, with the illegal characters replaced by a space character. The only way for me out of this issue is to paste the contents into a programmer's editor (notepad++), where the '0x01' characters are displayed as 'SOH'.

Given that the COMMENT is meant to store free-style text where occasional "illegal" characters do not seem to create problems to other softwares like Mp3tag, and because of the difficulties shown above to isolate those bad characters, could it be possible for MinimServer to relax a bit the rules about the presence of illegal characters inside the COMMENT tag ? Could those simply be ignored when reporting the tag contents to the control point, instead of completely ignoring the tag field ?

Thanks for your help