Genres show as numbers

[bflorat]

Reported by ShadowIce on 18 Jul 2007 13:26 UTC In the logic tree I have a lot of numbers when it is sorted by genre. That number also shows as genre when viewing the file properties.

[bflorat]

Commented by bflorat on 18 Jul 2007 15:04 UTC This can be caused by olf-fashion ID3 V1 tag than stored genres in number format (do you know which tool tagged your files ? is it MP3 files ?). We knew that so we already make a mapping but we expected the () format, we never encountered a genre number alone without parenthesis around. I don't think we can do much for that: we can systematicaly replace number-formatted genres by a mapped style but in this case, we'll prevent users to use numbers for styles if they wishes to.

• Could you tell us if numbers matches this table bellow ?
• Could you tell us how tags are displayed under others players ?
• Workaround: change each style name from properties window, it will take a while writting all tags property recursively but it should work.
• { "Blues", "Classic Rock", "Country", "Dance", "Disco", "Funk", "Grunge", "Hip-Hop", "Jazz", "Metal", "New Age", "Oldies", "Other", "Pop", "R&B", "Rap", "Reggae", "Rock", "Techno", "Industrial", "Alternative", "Ska", "Death Metal", "Pranks", "Soundtrack", "Euro-Techno", "Ambient", "Trip-Hop", "Vocal", "Jazz+Funk", "Fusion", "Trance", "Classical", "Instrumental", "Acid", "House", "Game", "Sound Clip", "Gospel", "Noise", "AlternRock", "Bass", "Soul", "Punk", "Space", "Meditative", "Instrumental Pop", "Instrumental Rock", "Ethnic", "Gothic", "Darkwave", "Techno-Industrial", "Electronic", "Pop-Folk", "Eurodance", "Dream", "Southern Rock", "Comedy", "Cult", "Gangsta", "Top 40", "Christian Rap", "Pop/Funk", "Jungle", "Native American", "Cabaret", "New Wave", "Psychedelic", "Rave", "Showtunes", "Trailer", "Lo-Fi", "Tribal", "Acid Punk", "Acid Jazz", "Polka", "Retro", "Musical", "Rock & Roll", "Hard Rock", "Folk", "Folk-Rock", "National Folk", "Swing", "Fast Fusion", "Bebob", "Latin", "Revival", "Celtic", "Bluegrass", "Avantgarde", "Gothic Rock", "Progressive Rock", "Psychedelic Rock", "Symphonic Rock", "Slow Rock", "Big Band", "Chorus", "Easy Listening", "Acoustic", "Humour", "Speech", "Chanson", "Opera", "Chamber Music", "Sonata", "Symphony", "Booty Brass", "Primus", "Porn Groove", "Satire", "Slow Jam", "Club", "Tango", "Samba", "Folklore", "Ballad", "Power Ballad", "Rhytmic Soul", "Freestyle", "Duet", "Punk Rock", "Drum Solo", "Acapella", "Euro-House", "Dance Hall", "Goa", "Drum & Bass", "Club-House", "Hardcore", "Terror", "Indie", "BritPop", "Negerpunk", "Polsk Punk", "Beat", "Christian Gangsta", "Heavy Metal", "Black Metal", "Crossover", "Contemporary C", "Christian Rock", "Merengue", "Salsa", "Thrash Metal", "Anime", "JPop", "SynthPop" };

[bflorat]

Commented by ShadowIce on 18 Jul 2007 18:32 UTC Winamp shows the "correct" genres in both ID3v1 and v2. ID3-TagIT shows the correct genre for ID3v1, but a number for ID3v2. Now I don't know which program wrote that number there, might have been winamp, Musikcube or Jajuk. And you are right, preventing people from using a number in the ID3v2 is not really a solution.

So I'll have some more files to fix...

[bflorat]

Commented by bflorat on 19 Jul 2007 08:13 UTC Note: I don't think this genre tagging can come from jajuk. Note2: we may have to considere to map genres number to styles in the future (making impossible for user to use a number as a genre afterwards) if more users report this problem, to be followed.