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polygonal:
I have a ipod 5G and the most recent build of Rockbox. My music files are all mp3s tagged with id3v2.3 (I think) and they usually have pretty long names / album names, etc. since classical music usually need a lots of information...

I'm quite new - initialized the database after getting Rockbox on my ipod. It seems that the initialization process randomly truncates some piece of tag, for example, I'm presented with the following albums

Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos.1-5 (
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos.1-5 (A
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos.1-5 (Ai
...
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos.1-5 (Aimard)

I checked my mp3 file using other tag reader, and their tag are correct. Is it the expected behavior? Is there any fix available?

Thanks

Llorean:
There is a limited space available for tags (all total tags on one song). Once you reach the end of that space, anything after will be cut off, it sounds like your very long tags are causing this to happen. Are there any album art, comments, or other tags not supported by Rockbox that you can remove (or re-order so that they're after the 'useful' ones)?

polygonal:
Now I see the problem - I do have VERY long tags including album art and substantial texts. But i can't think of any tagger program out there that let me rearrange the order of tag... and writing one myself will be involve more time than I'm willing to give.

Is there a published limit as to after what length the tag will be truncated? I might try to remove the album art from tag, but if it won't help, I don't want to try it to begin with.

Also, where is the official list of what tag is supported? According to the manual, comment is not supported, but the "show id3 info" in the context menu shows partial comment (sometimes only the "title" of the comment).

Thanks for the help

Llorean:
I honestly don't know what the limit is, nor whether removing unsupported tags will help or if it's only the length of supported tags that matters. Sorry.

Lear:
The limit is on the length of the actually read parts. So, album art and similar stuff makes no difference. The total size allocated for the text is 300 bytes (utf-8 encoded), and that is used for the following tags: artist, album, title, track number, date, composer, album artist, comment, genre and any replaygain values.

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