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#24625 - 12/01/2001 14:53 Emplode Silly Genre Bug
phaigh
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Registered: 04/11/1999
Posts: 649
Loc: Reading, UK
Emplode converts .mp3's with a Genre of:

'Beat'

to

'Christian Gangsta'

Bizarre, but true.

(cc'd to [email protected]).

Cheers,

Paul.

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#24626 - 12/01/2001 21:34 Re: Emplode Silly Genre Bug [Re: phaigh]
Ezekiel
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Registered: 25/08/2000
Posts: 2413
Loc: NH USA
Could this be a ID3 v1 / v2 issue?

-Zeke

just say you weren't paying much attention...
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#24627 - 13/01/2001 07:36 Re: Emplode Silly Genre Bug [Re: Ezekiel]
phaigh
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Registered: 04/11/1999
Posts: 649
Loc: Reading, UK
Nope - I've not got any V2 tags, just v1's....

!

Paul.

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#24628 - 13/01/2001 21:39 Re: Emplode Silly Genre Bug [Re: phaigh]
borislav
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Registered: 30/04/2000
Posts: 420
Loc: Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Emplode converts .mp3's with a Genre of: 'Beat' to 'Christian Gangsta'

ROFL

In id3v1 the genre is identified by a number. The standard genres are 0-79. Later, WinAmp defined 80-125, those are now also widely used. You can find the list in the id3v2.3.0 description (appendix A, near the end). You'll notice that neither "Beat" nor "Christian Gangsta" appear in that list. In other words, those number for those genres is not really standard and it isn't really a bug that emplode interprets it differently from you tagging software.

Two things you can do about this: 1. Use id3v2 and put any string you like for the genre tag. 2. Change it in emplode, again to any string you want, doesn't have to be one of the predefined ones.

Borislav



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#24629 - 14/01/2001 03:56 Re: Emplode Silly Genre Bug [Re: borislav]
phaigh
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Registered: 04/11/1999
Posts: 649
Loc: Reading, UK
So, emplode has a different list of genres, after the 128.

Not a massive problem, but I thought that I'd share.

Cheers,

Paul.

PS I like genre 109 - although I can't imagine that many songs in this genre (..)

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#24630 - 20/01/2001 18:25 Porn Groove [Re: phaigh]
bootsy
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Registered: 17/08/2000
Posts: 334
Loc: Seattle, WA. USA
I have some Johnny "Guitar" Watson that comes close...

What always amazed me is that not only does "Primus" have it's own genre, but neither "Rockabilly" or "Psychobilly" have their own genres... I usually enter them as "Trailer..."

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#24631 - 25/07/2002 05:57 Re: Emplode Silly Genre Bug [Re: phaigh]
Roger
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Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5683
Loc: London, UK
FITNR.

Found a missing comma in the list of genres while doing some i18n work, causing everything after "Euro-House" to be off-by-one. Doh.
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#24632 - 25/07/2002 07:41 Re: Emplode Silly Genre Bug [Re: Roger]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31594
Loc: Seattle, WA
Will there be a beta 14 then?
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#24633 - 25/07/2002 08:09 Re: Emplode Silly Genre Bug [Re: tfabris]
peter
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Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4180
Loc: Cambridge, England
Will there be a beta 14 then?

That's just what they'll be expecting us to do!

Peter

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#24634 - 25/07/2002 10:38 Re: Emplode Silly Genre Bug [Re: peter]
mschrag
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Registered: 09/09/2000
Posts: 2303
Loc: Richmond, VA
You should call it Beta 15 to throw them all off

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#24635 - 28/07/2002 15:32 Re: Emplode Silly Genre Bug [Re: phaigh]
Aragon
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Registered: 17/05/2002
Posts: 148
Loc: Cape Town, South Africa
Does this only affect newly uploaded tracks with v1 tags - not v2 and not existing music on the player?


Thanks,
Aragon

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#24636 - 29/07/2002 02:22 Re: Emplode Silly Genre Bug [Re: Aragon]
Roger
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Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5683
Loc: London, UK
It will affect newly uploaded tracks -- both ID3v1 and v2. It's too late for already-uploaded tracks -- they'll already have the wrong genre assigned, if it was towards the end of the list.
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#24637 - 29/07/2002 07:28 Re: Emplode Silly Genre Bug [Re: Roger]
frog51
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Registered: 09/08/2000
Posts: 2091
Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland
I should really do a search on my empeg by genre sometime - never used it yet, but it might be amusing to see where some of my wierder stuff is categorised.

Then again, I have never bothered to put in the genre field for the vast majority of my music as none of the categories fit exactly. Don't see it as staggeringly important. Sorry to go against popular opinion.
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