Special Property Title to Read ID3v2

[admin]

I just made a little improvement...

[TheQwerty]

14.00.0103 shows improvement...

v1 - Genre column and meta tab are empty.
v1v2.3 - Comments column shows 'engÿþ'; genre column is empty; meta tab is correct.
v1v2.4 - Genre column and meta tab are empty.
v2.3 - Comments column shows 'engÿþ'; genre column is correct (shows both*); meta tab is correct.
v2.4 - Comments and year columns are empty; genre column only shows 'GenreOneTag'*; meta tab is empty.

*It's debatable which of these is truly correct.

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  2   e  	  101    65    e  	65  	
  3   n  	  110    6E    n  	6E  	
  4   g  	  103    67    g  	67  	
  5   ÿ  	  255    FF   ÿ  	C3 BF  	
  6   þ  	  254    FE   þ  	C3 BE  	

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System Locale ID: 1033 (en-US)
Thread Locale ID: 1033 (en-US)
Default ANSI Code Page: 1252  (ANSI - Latin I)
Active Code Page: 1252  (ANSI - Latin I)
DBCS Code Page: No

[admin]

Fully confirmed. Maybe I get another inspiration later...

[TheQwerty]

EDIT: Quick Note, I'm only posting this to show the current state - I am not requesting it get any more attention.
(Frankly, I've fully embraced the streaming rental services at this point. If only because it means no more headaches of managing a music library for me. )
/edit

I tracked down this thread to use the posted MP3s for testing preview 2.0, and figured while I'm here I'll update the state of things for v16.00.0217:

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Extra 1 - Meta Fields Present: These are the fields correctly shown on the Info Panel's Meta tab.
Extra 2 - Preview Tab Missing: These are the fields NOT correctly shown on the Info Panel's Preview tab.

Comments:
Empty genre on v1 is correct - free-form genres were not supported.
Missing comments on v2.3 and v2.4.
Missing year on v2.4.

Script to set up columns:

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::setcolumns("Name,:s-mp3.album,:s-mp3.artist,:s-mp3.comments,:s-mp3.genre,:s-mp3.title,:s-mp3.track,:s-mp3.year,Extra 1,Extra 2", 16);

[TheQwerty]

Updating due to recent discussions in this thread: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15262

Using the silent test files I previously posted in a fresh instance of XY v16.10.0303:

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Extra 1 - Meta Fields Present: These are the only fields correctly shown on the Info Panel's Meta tab.
Extra 2 - Previewed By - Missing Tags: This is the preview provider and if XY the fields NOT correctly shown on the Info Panel's Preview tab.


Comments:
Empty genre on v1 is correct - free-form genres were not supported.
Missing comments on v2.3 and v2.4.
Missing year on v2.4.
/ v2.4 falling back to WMP previews is nice, but native XY would be better.

Script to set up columns:

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::setcolumns("Name,:s-mp3.album,:s-mp3.artist,:s-mp3.comments,:s-mp3.genre,:s-mp3.title,:s-mp3.track,:s-mp3.year,Extra 1,Extra 2", 16);

[admin]

I have the same picture in the file list. Are you sure that the missing info is existing? I cannot see it anywhere. Where do you see it? What can show it?

The Meta tab only shows what the shell sees (which is less than what XY / the list sees). So that's as designed.

All 5 files play in XY's native preview in the preview tab here. Might be that's related with KLite Codec pack being installed on my system.

[TheQwerty]

Where do you see it? What can show it?

foobar2000
MP3tag
VLC

All 5 files play in XY's native preview in the preview tab here. Might be that's related with KLite Codec pack being installed on my system.

I'm not using any codec pack here, so it's possible. However, it is literally 5 copies of the same MP3 with the only difference being the metadata and WMP seems to handle them all fine.

[admin]

OK, looks like I could fix them all.

(v1.mp3 did not have a Genre tag; I added one via VLC and it works -- yes, even free form!)
Ah no, this worked because VLC updated the version to 2.4. Anyway, all perfect now!

[TheQwerty]

Details abound!

Fresh v16.10.0304:

MP3 metadata in fresh XYplorer v16.10.0304

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Comments:
Empty genre on v1 is correct - free-form genres were not supported.

Script to set up columns:

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::setcolumns("Name,:s-mp3.album,:s-mp3.artist,:s-mp3.comments,:s-mp3.genre,:s-mp3.title,:s-mp3.track,:s-mp3.year", 16);

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Now if only XY could display cover art image tags as well.
And of course metadata for other formats - FLAC for instance.

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Don, any thoughts on what to investigate to get XY to preview these v2.4 files without additional codecs?
They play fine in the WMP preview handler or in XY's native previews when the tags are rewritten as v2.3.

[admin]

Don, any thoughts on what to investigate to get XY to preview these v2.4 files without additional codecs?
They play fine in the WMP preview handler or in XY's native previews when the tags are rewritten as v2.3.

I use this for playing the files in the preview tab:

C:\Windows\System32\quartz.dll
ActiveMovie control type library
quartz.dll, 1.697.280 bytes, 2014-10-29 02:55:33, ver 6.6.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623), C:\Windows\System32\, MD5:adf48974578d8d3bed4f46bdcc361998

KLite obviously pimps its power.

PS: these two don't play anymore after deinstalling KLite:
v1v2.4.mp3
v2.4.mp3

[TheQwerty]

Thanks!
I'll investigate but it doesn't look good for codec-less support.

In other news XY once again kicks WE's butt:

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PS - You think Preview 3.0 might include a way for us to associate preview handler's within XY, thus allowing us to override those in the registry?

[admin]

PS - You think Preview 3.0 might include a way for us to associate preview handler's within XY, thus allowing us to override those in the registry?

If I find out how to do this, why not?!