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RockBox database not seeing Ogg metadata (artist/album/song title)

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yonkiman:
This is an odd one.  I populate my rockbox with a directory tree that looks like this:
R:\<MC13>\<artist>\<album>\<track number>. <song title>.  The problem is that after I build, rebuild, update the database, entire artists are missing from the database.  I have consistently found that there is no trace of any of the three "Buffalo Tom" albums in my database but my one "Buffalo Springfield" album always shows up.

I have tried building and rebuilding the database many times, using many different versions of RockBox (3.1, 3.2, and 3 or 4 the current builds over the last 2-4 months (I can't remember exactly when I discovered this problem).  The songs are definitely there on my rockbox  - you can see them in File view and play them, and when you play them all the tag s seem to be fine - but I just can't get them to show up in my database.

I have 6,404 songs in 2,523 directories according to Windows. 

I don't see them in the database whether I'm looking at Artist or Album Artist (and both fields are set correctly in the tags).  In fact all the CDs were ripped and tagged inside the same software (MediaCenter 13).

I just searched inside the database files and saw that the "Buffalo Tom" albums do show up in the database_4.tcd file in my RockBox directory.  So the problem seems to be that they are in the database but not displayed when I look by artist, album artist, album, or song - there's no trace of them through the UI although they are in the database files. 

Any ideas what could be causing this?

Thanks,
Fred

Llorean:
When you're playing them, you may not be seeing the tags. If tags are missing, many WPSes will attempt to use the folder structure to guess what the tags should be.

Why don't you verify the tags in a proper tagging program, or in the Rockbox context menu option while the song is playing?

yonkiman:

--- Quote from: Llorean on May 04, 2009, 07:46:31 PM ---Why don't you verify the tags in a proper tagging program, or in the Rockbox context menu option while the song is playing?

--- End quote ---

Here's the score:

* RockBox does not see the tags (which would explain why the ogg files aren't making it into the database), however
* MediaCenter, Foobar2000, and Mp3Tag do see the tags in the metadata (not from the filename/directory structure).
So it's sorta looking like the problem is on the RockBox side.

What now?  Is it possible there's some other metadata present (or missing) that's causing the file to be skipped?

Is Ogg working OK for everyone else?...

Lear:

--- Quote from: yonkiman on May 05, 2009, 01:49:10 PM ---What now?  Is it possible there's some other metadata present (or missing) that's causing the file to be skipped?

--- End quote ---

Could be. Check the size of the tag (MP3Tag can do it, though you may need to define a custom column for it). If it is too big (e.g., due to embedded album art), and the album/artist etc. tags are in the "wrong" place, Rockbox will ignore them.

evilnick:
Are the tags in Vorbis comment format? Some software can tag vorbis files with id3 tags which Rockbox doesn't read (on vorbis files)

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