Rating tag index

[simoncn]

(02-12-2012 12:03)Rairwave Wrote:  I really like Minimserver and it has the potential to be the best upnp server out there !!!!

Got a question about the rating tag index. I want to use rating to distinguish music I like and less like in a large library (2000+ albums).

I use Jaikoz (mac version) to add a rating to a combination of m4a, flac and mp3 files. These music files are stored on a Synology nas. In the properties of Minimserver I have added "Rating" to index. The problem is that not all rating is indexed and displayed correctly in either plugplayer, kinsky or chorusds. For some songs the rating shows correctly others don't show at all.

I analysed it a bit deeper and found out it works great for flac files. I looked with mediainfo (installed on the synology nas itself) at the actual tags and I see a "Rating" tag (for example 60 for 3 stars in Jaikoz). Plugplayer and the other controllers show the exact number (e.g. 60).

But it doesn't work for the m4a files. Mediainfo shows "rate" and "RATING MM" but no "Rating" tag. I tried to solve it by adding "rate" to the index tags in the properties of Minimserver but that doesn't help. The rating of m4a files is not indexed and shown in plugplayer (and others).

How can I successfully index the rating tag on all my music, independend of codec used?

It sounds like there's a problem with Jaikoz adding a Rating tag to an m4a file. From this description, when you do that, MediaInfo shows no Rating tag in the file, and MinimServer also doesn't find a Rating tag in the file. This seems to indicate that Jaikoz didn't write the tag correctly.

Different file formats have different ways to do tagging. For m4a files, custom tags (such as Rating) should be written inside the '----' atom, and MinimServer reads this atom and its contents. It seems that Jaikoz isn't writing Rating information to this location. Can you ask on a Jaikoz forum for details of how Jaikoz writes Rating information inside an m4a file?