album tag auto filled by folder name

[moogwill]

Hi Bernd, some of the tracks of my DB seems to "self tag" album column with the folder name. I tried to edit those, from an external editor, there's nothing in the album column, but if i try to edit this tag from the software, that won't work it "selftags" again. Is there an option I'm missing??

thanks,
Thomas.

[radio42]

Hi Thomas,

Yes, that is a feature you can adjust in the general settings.
See section 'Meta Data/WaveForm' and disable the 'Use Folder as Album Default' option.

[moogwill]

Thanks,

Just checked, this option wasn't selected.. is there something else?

[moogwill]

I just tried to retag those files from the external tagger it seems working there.. Will keep you updated if it doesn't/

By the way, I have another question: is it possible to define a specific Cover art when the file doesn't have one??

Thanks,
T.

[moogwill]

We're planning to be part of a DAB+ multiplex in the future, and I was thinking about datas sent to listeners... it includes cover art, and I was thinking about having a special image for missing covers...

[moogwill]

thanks,
when needed, I'll get back to you with the code to be sure to make this right. I'm allready updating a twitter account with those datas using a mail to twitt utilities from ifttt, will try to ad the picture in it.

By the way, it's a very easy way to configure twitter playlist history account... It seems some people were searching for this kind of stuff in here... check @nowonplayloud on twitter

Thomas.

[radio42]

No. Maybe you had these TAG/Album info already saved to the audio or using a .pfmd file?

I just tested it here again (with the option deactivated) and it definitely doesn't populate any Album automatically if that is not presernt.

However, note, that some audio files do contain more than one TAG info format and ProppFrexx supports a variety of them in parallel.
E.g. for .wav files, not only RIFF INFO, but also BWF and CART INFO tag data is evaluated.
Some compressed formats do contain ID3 and APE formats etc.
So maybe your file falls into this category and thus the album info is comming from a TAG format, which is not supported by your 'other software'.

To be sure, you can send me a sample audio file to take a look at.

[radio42]

I guess the external tagger was not even needed, as you can also remove the Album info form within PF, however, glad that you found the issue.

When the audio file doesn't have a cover art, there will be no cover displayed.
But there is no default cover to display in this case - the cover image is simply empty.

I don't really understand your question or why a 'specific' coder art is needed/for what?

[radio42]

Sure, but this can easily be handled in your 'data sending' function, i.e. when using on of the ${albumart} macros returns empty, you might replace it there with a default image. So this doesn't have to be part of ProppFrexx's internal logic!