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Weeks

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Registered: 2006-01-26

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Problems with gstreamer 0.10 and certain ID3v2 Tags?

Now I've switched over to 0.10 some of my ID3v2 tags are not displaying correctly. It varies from gstreamer not displaying any of the ID3v2 data to only displaying certain elements.

The id3demux plugin in gstreamer deals with the id3v2 data, as it did in 0.8. Here's output for id3demux in both 0.10 and 0.08.

#gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=/mnt/hd/Music/Amon Tobin/Permutation/05 Nightlife.mp3 ! id3demux ! fakesink -t
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
FOUND TAG      : found by element "id3demux0".
       duration: 389000000000
        comment: Description: iTunNORM
Comment:  00000585 0000060F 00002939 00002992 00046CE7 00046CE7 00006D43 0000734E 00049425 00033467
Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...
New clock: GstSystemClock
Got EOS from element "pipeline0".
Execution ended after 147631000 ns.
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Setting pipeline to READY ...
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
FREEING pipeline ...

# gst-launch-0.8 filesrc location=/mnt/hd/Music/Amon Tobin/Permutation/05 Nightlife.mp3 ! id3demux ! fakesink -t
RUNNING pipeline ...
FOUND TAG      : found by element "id3demux0".
       duration: 389000000000
        comment:  00000585 0000060F 00002939 00002992 00046CE7 00046CE7 00006D43 0000734E 00049425 00033467
          title: Nightlife
         artist: Amon Tobin
          album: Permutation
   track number: 5
          genre: Electronic
Execution ended after 1559 iterations (sum 187386000 ns, average 120196 ns, min 32000 ns, max 62062000 ns).

Even id3v2 sees the full ID3v2 tag:

#id3v2 tag info for /mnt/hd/Music/Amon Tobin/Permutation/05 Nightlife.mp3:
TLEN (Length): 389000
COMM (Comments): (iTunNORM)[eng]:  00000585 0000060F 00002939 00002992 00046CE7 00046CE7 00006D43 0000734E 00049425 00033467
APIC (Attached picture): (PNG

)[, 0]: PNG, 78882 bytes
TIT2 (Title/songname/content description): Nightlife
TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): Amon Tobin
TALB (Album/Movie/Show title): Permutation
TRCK (Track number/Position in set): 5
TCON (Content type): Electronic (52)

Is anyone else experiencing this?

It's quite easy to see: In totem it just doesn't display the tag and in rhythmbox it categorises the genre, album, or artist as "Unknown". Please make sure you're using totem or rhythmbox with gstreamer 0.10 not 0.8.

I had the same problem in Slackware. I'm trying to work out if it's something that I'm doing incorrectly.

I'd attach an mp3 but I'm pretty sure that would break some kind of law. I can't even do a sample as audacity removes the id3 tag when I crop the mp3 to a 30 second sample.

Weeks

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Registered: 2006-01-26

Posts: 91

Re: Problems with gstreamer 0.10 and certain ID3v2 Tags?

Here's what gstreamer stuff I have installed:

# pacman -Q | grep gstreamer0.10
gstreamer0.10 0.10.4-1
gstreamer0.10-a52dec 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-aalib 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.5-1
gstreamer0.10-amrnb 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-bad 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.5-1
gstreamer0.10-bz2 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-cairo 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-cdio 0.10.2-3
gstreamer0.10-cdparanoia 0.10.5-1
gstreamer0.10-dts 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-dv 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-dv1394 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-dvdread 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-esd 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-faac 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-faad 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-flac 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-gconf 0.10.2-4
gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs 0.10.5-2
gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.2-3
gstreamer0.10-jpeg 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-ladspa 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-lame 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-libcaca 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-libpng 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-libvisual 0.10.5-1
gstreamer0.10-mad 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-mms 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-mpeg2dec 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-musepack 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-neon 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-ogg 0.10.5-1
gstreamer0.10-sdl 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-shout2 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-sidplay 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-speex 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-swfdec 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-theora 0.10.5-1
gstreamer0.10-ugly 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-vorbis 0.10.5-1
gstreamer0.10-xvid 0.10.1-1

Weeks

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Registered: 2006-01-26

Posts: 91

Re: Problems with gstreamer 0.10 and certain ID3v2 Tags?

Well, I got someone who was using the CVS version of gstreamer and its plugins to test it out for me, and it seems it will be fixed in the forthoming release

There's quite a few problem with id3demux in gst-plugins-good-0.10.2 that are now fixed in CVS.