MMC Sync with Portable problem

[Neksus]

Hey,
MMC wants to transfer the same 22 files every time I want to synchronise with my Philips HDD120!

Any ideas what could be wrong?

I have tried this:
Transferring all files with Sveta
Transferring all files with MMC
Transferring all files with DMM (Philips program)

And every time if I try using MMC again it wants the same 22 files copied over!

[Spoon]

It works on the id tags, so make sure that the id tags in MMC are the same as the real file, and that when transfered that the tags are correct in sveta.

[Neksus]

It works on the id tags, so make sure that the id tags in MMC are the same as the real file, and that when transfered that the tags are correct in sveta.
I tried having MMC re-read the ID3 tags,
but it didn't have any affect!

I'm going to try one last time to make a complete transfer with MMC!

[Neksus]

Okay I have found the problem,
but I don't know what to do about it!

It seems that reading from the HDD120 only ID3v1 is read,
but from my hard drive ID3v2 or APEv2 is read!
So the 22 songs all have titles that are too long for ID3v1!

Please assist!

[Spoon]

dBpowerAMP can read ape2, but there is a limit of 100 chars in MMC (per field), are they over that?

[Neksus]

dBpowerAMP can read ape2, but there is a limit of 100 chars in MMC (per field), are they over that?
Nope here is an example!
When I press Sync... with...
Then in the Synchronize to portable part it says
American Head Charge - Americ*** Evolving Into Useless Psychic Garbage

But in Synchronize from portable part it says
American Head Charge - Americ*** Evolving Into Useless Psychic

[Spoon]

That is a 64 character cut off, I am thinking that the HDD100 has a limit of 64 chars?

[Neksus]

That is a 64 character cut off, I am thinking that the HDD100 has a limit of 64 chars?
Well using the files on my HDD120 in foobar2000 still shows
American Head Charge - Americ*** Evolving Into Useless Psychic Garbage
and not
American Head Charge - Americ*** Evolving Into Useless Psychic

So I think it is MMC that only reads the ID3v1 when reading from HDD120!

[Spoon]

The hdd uses its own database, not the id tags.

[Neksus]

The hdd uses its own database, not the id tags.
Well then, would it be possible for you to make some sort of fix for this?
Maybe make MMC read the id tags, or only read the ID3v1 tags when synchronizing with HDD120?

[Neksus]

I have just tried with WMA files, and it is the same problem! They don't use ID3v1 do they?

[Spoon]

It is in the HDD firmware, try using the HDD transfer program (DMM) it will do the same.

[Neksus]

It is in the HDD firmware, try using the HDD transfer program (DMM) it will do the same.
That's not entirely true! Using the HHD program is slow but there are no re-transfers! It does not want to transfer the same files again!

[Spoon]

Sorry I meant it would take the tag and shorten it to 64 chars, if you test this and it does then something can be done with the Sveta driver.

[Neksus]

Sorry I meant it would take the tag and shorten it to 64 chars, if you test this and it does then something can be done with the Sveta driver.
When using DMM to transfer, the files still have ID3v2 tags in them!
This must mean that it is the database it self that only uses the ID3v1 tags (64 chars)!

Maybe you could use some workaround to make it compare on ID3v1 tags!

[Spoon]

It will note it down to fix.

[Neksus]

You have fixed it in the latest release!
Thanks!

[Spoon]

Indeed I did, I worked thorugh the list of little bugs for all players these last 2 weeks.