tracknumber not detected

[johny7]

Hey guys,

I have the problem that the tracknumber of one single song isn't shown in the database or it's just not detected. It looks like this:

1. Song 1
2. Song 2
4. Song 4
Song 3

The tags are correct, I checked it a hundred of times and it works fine with all other songs. My idea is that the problem may be the title of the song:

And By Our Own Hand Did Every Last Bird Lie Silent In Their Puddles, The Air Barren Of Song As The Clouds Drifted Away. For Killing Their Greatest Enemy, The Locusts Noisily Thanked Us And Turned Their Jaws Toward Our Crops, Swallowing Our Greed Whole.



But why is the tracknumber not detected just because the songname is so long? Or do you have other ideas?

Sorry for my English and it would be great if you can help me!

[Llorean]

What format are the files, and if MP3, what tag version?

[johny7]

They are mp3 and the tagversion is ID3v2.3.

The tracknumbers are like this: 06/08

[Llorean]

Ah. Try just using 06 instead, just as an idea to test.

[MarcGuay]

I had a problem with that song, as well.    I think the problem has to do with the limit on tag buffer size.  Mine is now called "And by Our Own Hand Did Every Last Bird Lie Silent In Their Puddles, the Air Barren of Song as the Clouds Drifted Away" and all of the tags display fine.

As far as the long song name messing with the track number, the tags aren't necessarily read in the order they appear to the user, so if the track number is located after the song name and it chokes, the track number won't be read.

The reason I know that: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/8500

[johny7]

Okay, thank you!

Is there another solution? Actually, I don't want to change the songtitle.
I read you can't change the priority, but would it be possible to increase the limit on tag buffer size?

They talked about this in these comments you linked to, but I don't really understand :/

[MarcGuay]

The ideas discussed in this task, which would allow you to manually increase the buffer size, would require you to compile your own build.  I believe that the reason the buffer size is currently limited is simply because device memory is limited, and the majority of users wouldn't require more than is currently alloted.

http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/8204

If you do end up changing the song name tag, good luck.  I had problems doing so with both dbPowerAmp and MP3Tag, both of which thought the file was corrupt, and now I can't recall how I managed to truncate it.  Salut...

[johny7]

Too bad there isn't another possibility :/

But thank you for your help!

[johnny7]

Now registered with the correct nick

[karashata]

Something I've noticed (don't know if it's applicable here though) is that if the metadata info of a given file has a very long "Comment" tag, a lot of the rest of the metadata won't be read (though it's still there).  I've run into VGM remixes from OC ReMix that have rather lengthy comments in the "Comment" tag. and have not loaded all of the rest of the metadata because of those comments.  Removing the lengthy comments allowed the rest of the tags to be loaded properly.