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Genre Displayed as number with iTunes - "not a bug" ?

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mhebsacker:
Hi,

there was Bug 8723 which dealt with the problem that the Genre sometimes is only shown as Number.

I have this same problem with iTunes - for sure not the most standard conform program but well, let's say not the most exotic one? - that Rockbox only displays the genres as their genre ID / Number. Only if I invent "my own genre" - let s say "Pop_1" instead of "Pop" so iTunes does not find an ID Rockbox will display this genre as text.

Bug 8723  was closed because it's an " issue with files tags, not Rockbox."

Still, the comments say "Rockbox does interpret the codes, but it is a little picky about the format."

Well - would'nt it be so hard to make Rockbox a little less "picky"? For sure you're right if you say it's an Bug/non standard behaviour concerning the program which was tagging the file, but I am sure it's a lot easier to make Rockbox more tolerant than to convince Steve Jobs to change iTunes?

Would be great.

Matthias


P.S. When checking the Rockbox Forums with http://validator.w3.org W3.org found 7 errors. Should my webbrowser stop to display this page for this reason?

Llorean:
It's really best if we adhere to the specification. If we don't and people expecting us to try to do things technically legal our software could misinterpret it since they're expecting us to use the specification.

As for the website validation, try again and it should be fixed.

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: mhebsacker on August 13, 2008, 02:55:04 AM ---P.S. When checking the Rockbox Forums with http://validator.w3.org W3.org found 7 errors. Should my webbrowser stop to display this page for this reason?

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Well, being correct is one thing. Being tolerant against errors is another one. While it isn't bad to be tolerant against errors to some degree being too tolerant is quite problematic. If Itunes writes numbers in a field that takes strings this is simply wrong -- and what if a user intentionally writes numbers in that field? It would break, and this would clearly be an error.

afruff23:
I use 5 different programs to tag my files (sometimes a combination, sometimes only 1) and I get this same problem. The problem only shows up on my player, so what can I do to make the genre tags show up correctly in Rockbox?

I use Tag&Rename, foobar2000, winamp, ID3-TagIT 3, and musicbrainz picard.

soap:
Does this happen only when you have only a ID3v1 and not an additional ID3v2 tag?

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