Hi all
New to Mopidy.
Setting up music library on a RPi. Mostly fine.
Some of my mp3 files were done a long time ago and have an older id3 tag – I think this is causing some problems, as after a local scan, the artist id isn’t put into the album record.
Here’s the id3 tag on an example file – eyeD3 reports it as id3 v2.2:
$ id3info media/Bryan\ Ferry/01\ these\ foolish\ things/01\ A\ Hard\ Rain’s\ A-Gonna\ Fall.mp3
*** Tag information for media/Bryan Ferry/01 these foolish things/01 A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.mp3
=== TT2 (Title/songname/content description): A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
=== TCM (Composer): Bob Dylan
=== TRK (Track number/Position in set): 1/13
=== TPA (Part of a set): 1/1
=== TYE (Year): 1973
=== COM (Comments): (iTunPGAP)[eng]: 0
=== TEN (Encoded by): iTunes 8.0
=== COM (Comments): (iTunNORM)[eng]: 00000DA4 00000EA1 00007143 00006BD3 0003DAA1 0003DAA1 00008524 00008364 00035D6D 0003C568
=== COM (Comments): (iTunSMPB)[eng]: 00000000 00000210 000007A4 0000000000D6C44C 00000000 0074D2F1 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
=== COM (Comments): (iTunes_CDDB_IDs)[eng]: 13+45FE666C45C03B7E01D491EF2E9ACD05+835558
=== UFI (Unique file identifier): http://www.cddb.com/id3/taginfo.html, 53 bytes
=== PIC (Attached picture): ()[JPG, 0]: , 6414 bytes
=== TP1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): Bryan Ferry
=== TAL (Album/Movie/Show title): These Foolish Things
=== TSA (): frame
*** mp3 info
MPEG1/layer III
Bitrate: 192KBps
Frequency: 44KHz
and here is the record for the album in the SQLite database:
Musicbox-webclient takes the data given to it by Mopidy, which can only have come from Mopidy-Local. That is, assuming you not inadvertently using Mopidy-File in one of these cases. I can’t speak to what Iris does. If you grab a debug log we might be able to get a better idea of what’s going on. I’ll also ask for your mopidyctl deps output also.
Thanks for replying. I don’t think that it’s a feature of the clients – this is a mopidy feature. I think that mopidy (or at least Mopidy-Local) needs the albumartist tag to function properly.
I added an
album artist: Bryan Ferry
tag to the .mp3 file (still id3 v2.2), which went into the
TP2 (Band/orchestra/accompaniment) field.
“sudo mopidyctl local scan” then picked up this field and used it to link the artist to the album.
I was banging my head against the wall trying to figure out why I could only see some files and not others. This work around fixed it for me. Thanks for sharing!