[Feedback] issue with year from mp3 s

[Jeff Mitchell]

Ralf Haack wrote:
> Jeff Mitchell schrieb:
>> On Sunday 03 August 2008, HPeterKF at gmx.de wrote:
>>  
>>> Peter sent a message using the contact form at
>>> http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I tagged my mp3's with different software and when I used Amarok to play
>>> them I found a strange behaviour. The year of a few titles inside an 
>>> album
>>> were totally wrong.
>>> These particular mp3's were tagged with an ID3 Tag 'DATE' – why? – I’ve
>>> no idea.
>>> It looks like Amarok is using this tag as year. So a date of 26th 
>>> June was
>>> translated into the year 2606 and the also available ‘YEAR’ tag of 2007
>>> was totally ignored.
>>> I’ve no idea if this is an Amarok issue?
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>     
>>
>> It's hard to say without knowing many other variables...what version 
>> of TagLib are you using? What version of Amarok?  Also, try using 
>> eyeD3 with the -1 and -2 options in separate runs, and let me know 
>> what the output is.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeff
>>
>>   
> Jeff,
> 
> I'm using Kubuntu 8.04.1, KDE 3.5.9, Amarok  1.4.9.1 and libtag1c2a
> This mp3 is showing a year of "304" in Amarok. After using -1 and -2 
> nothing unusual showed up. Then I used -2 -v and TDAT is showing "0304"
> 
> Sorry for the character mess ...
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Peter
> 
> 
> ######################################################################################################### 
> 
> eyeD3 with OPT -1
> ######################################################################################################### 
> 
> [1mMay Hits 2007 - 07 - Timbaland Feat. Fall Out Boy - One & 
> Only.mp3    [ 7.46 MB ]
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> Time: 5:55    MPEG1, Layer I    [ 160 kb/s @ 48000 Hz - Stereo ]
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> ID3 v1.1:
> title: One & Only        artist: Timbaland Feat. Fall 
> Out Boy
> album: May Hits 2007        year: 2007
> track: 7        genre: Hip-Hop (id 7)
> Comment: [Description: ID3 v1 Comment] [Lang: eng]
> DJ JoVy
> 
> ########################################################################################################### 
> 
> ########################################################################################################### 
> 
> eyeD3 with OPT -2
> ########################################################################################################### 
> 
> May Hits 2007 - 07 - Timbaland Feat. Fall Out Boy - One & 
> Only.mp3    [ 7.46 MB ]
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> Time: 4:16    MPEG1, Layer III    [ ~242 kb/s @ 44100 Hz - Joint 
> stereo ]
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> ID3 v2.3:
> title: One & Only        artist: Timbaland Feat. Fall 
> Out Boy
> album: May Hits 2007        year: 2007
> track: 7        genre: Hip-Hop (id 7)
> Comment: [Description: ] [Lang: eng]
> 
> 
> UserTextFrame: [Description: Rip date]
> 2007-03-23
> UserTextFrame: [Description: Source]
> CD (LP)
> UserTextFrame: [Description: Ripping tool]
> EAC
> UserTextFrame: [Description: Release type]
> Normal release
> 
> FRONT_COVER Image: [Size: 39857 bytes] [Type: image/jpg]
> Description:
> 
> ############################################################################################# 
> 
> ############################################################################################# 
> 
> eyeD3 with OPT -2 -v    (because nothing was showing up)
> ############################################################################################# 
> 
> 
> May Hits 2007 - 07 - Timbaland Feat. Fall Out Boy - One & 
> Only.mp3    [ 7.46 MB ]
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> Time: 4:16    MPEG1, Layer III    [ ~242 kb/s @ 44100 Hz - Joint 
> stereo ]
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> ID3 v2.3:
> title: One & Only        artist: Timbaland Feat. Fall 
> Out Boy
> album: May Hits 2007        year: 2007
> track: 7        genre: Hip-Hop (id 7)
> Comment: [Description: ] [Lang: eng]
> 
> 
> UserTextFrame: [Description: Rip date]
> 2007-03-23
> UserTextFrame: [Description: Source]
> CD (LP)
> UserTextFrame: [Description: Ripping tool]
> EAC
> UserTextFrame: [Description: Release type]
> Normal release
> 
> FRONT_COVER Image: [Size: 39857 bytes] [Type: image/jpg]
> Description:
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> ID3 Frames:
> <Band/orchestra/accompaniment (TPE2): Various Artists>
> <Track number/Position in set (TRCK): 07>
> <Language(s) (TLAN): eng>
> <Date (TDAT): 0304>
> <Content type (TCON): Hip-Hop>
> <Software/Hardware and settings used for encoding (TSSE): LAME>
> <Album/Movie/Show title (TALB): May Hits 2007>
> <Year (TYER): 2007>
> <Title/songname/content description (TIT2): One & Only>
> <Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s) (TPE1): Timbaland Feat. Fall Out Boy>
> <Part of a set (TPOS): 1>
> <UNKOWN FRAME (TCMP): 1>
> <User defined text information frame (TXXX): {Desc: Rip date} 2007-03-23>
> <User defined text information frame (TXXX): {Desc: Source} CD (LP)>
> <User defined text information frame (TXXX): {Desc: Ripping tool} EAC>
> <User defined text information frame (TXXX): {Desc: Release type} Normal 
> release>
> <Comments (COMM):  [Lang: eng] [Desc: ]>
> <Attached picture Frame (APIC)>
> 

Ralf,

Thanks, this is interesting.  Can you please find out what version(s) of 
taglib are installed on your system?

libtag1c2a is TagLib 1.4.  I need you to update to TagLib 1.5, as it 
fixes many issues, including many with ID3v2.3 tag handling.  From a 
quick runthrough of the Amarok code, it seems like the likely 
explanation is that the tag library is giving us the wrong data.

Alternately, you can send me the file and I can test it out on my 
system, which is using TagLib 1.5.


Thanks,
Jeff