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Belgi

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Registered: 2013-06-23

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Mplayer - incorrect Artist in display

Playing 1-07 Wild America.mp3.
Audio only file format detected.
Clip info:
 Title: Wild America
 Artist: Triple J
 Album: Triple J Hottest 100 - Volume 
 Year: 1993
 Comment: 
 Track: 15
 Genre: Rock
Load subtitles in ./

Artist is showing as "Triple J" but it should be "Iggy Pop". If I right click and check the properties from Thunar the Artist is as expected. I had a look in /etc/mplayer/example.conf and also ~/.mplayer/config but couldn't see anything obvious to me as to how to change this. Does anyone know?

Thanks

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Mplayer - incorrect Artist in display

Did you tag this file yourself i.e. manually or did you use some automated way to get the needed info?
What's the output of mediainfo for this file?

phw

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Registered: 2013-05-27

Posts: 318

Re: Mplayer - incorrect Artist in display

Might be the file includes both id3v1 and id3v2 tags, and one of the tag sets is wrong. Have you tried opening the file in a tagging application (something like easytag or MusicBrainz Picard) and resaving it there? The mutagen package also includes the handy mid3v2 command line tool which will print you the id3v2 tags of your file.

Don't think the mplayer configuration will solve this for you, mplayer for sure does not make the artist name up. It must be somewhere inside your file

Belgi

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Registered: 2013-06-23

Posts: 12

Re: Mplayer - incorrect Artist in display

Thanks chaps, I will do some more digging when I get a chance.

The file says under "Container Formats" in Banshee ld3v1, ld3v2

phw

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Registered: 2013-05-27

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Re: Mplayer - incorrect Artist in display

The file says under "Container Formats" in Banshee ld3v1, ld3v2

I guess it is really a mismatch between id3v1 and id3v2 then. I would just load the file into easytag, check the tags and save it again. Just make sure it is configured to write both id3v1 and v2.

Rasi

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Re: Mplayer - incorrect Artist in display

I guess it is really a mismatch between id3v1 and id3v2 then. I would just load the file into easytag, check the tags and save it again. Just make sure it is configured to write both id3v1 and v2.

Or even better. get rid of id3v1

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phw

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Re: Mplayer - incorrect Artist in display

Or even better. get rid of id3v1

Depends on what Rasi wants to do with the files. There are still some legacy players (both soft- and hardware) which don't support id3v2, and the id3v1 tags normally do no harm. But yeah, if you don't need id3v1 you can remove it.