XMCD Parsing

[DazBYorks]

Hi,

Your logic for splitting compilation albums would seem to only work (by design) where there is something ( / or -?) for all the tracks. Can this not be changed so that it will, as everything else I use (and have written) seems to do, in taking the album artist as the track artist where no splitter is found?

Daz

[Spoon]

Re: XMCD Parsing

It depends where your metadata is from, AMG and GD3 are very different to freedb.

[DazBYorks]

Re: XMCD Parsing

Hi,

I have no clue what format the AMG or GD3 arrives in, the XMCD is the name of the format for CDDB (and therefore FreeDB) files. However I would have thought that my proposal would apply to all metadata sources. The current handling is particularly annoying with such as albums with a (guest) artist on a track.

Daz

[Spoon]

Re: XMCD Parsing

The others do not require it as artist and title are seperate. The XMCD spec does state that / should be used.

[DazBYorks]

Re: XMCD Parsing

Hi,

My question doesn't relate to the separators, just your handling of albums where there aren't separators for all tracks.

Daz

[Spoon]

Re: XMCD Parsing

Can you give an example XMCD dump?

[DazBYorks]

Re: XMCD Parsing

Hi,

Yup

[PHP]# xmcd CD database file
#
# Track frame offsets:
# 150
# 17580
# 36322
# 57042
# 72770
# 91505
# 106512
# 138965
# 154270
# 171282
#
# Disc length: 2530 seconds
#
# Revision: 3
# Submitted via: ExactAudioCopy v0.95b4
#
DISCID=7009e00a
DTITLE=Ozzy Osbourne / Prince Of Darkness [Disc 4 of 4]
DYEAR=2005
DGENRE=Rock
TTITLE0=21st Century Schizoid Man
TTITLE1=Mississippi Queen
TTITLE2=All The Young Dudes
TTITLE3=In My Life
TTITLE4=Fire
TTITLE5=For What It's Worth
TTITLE6=Sympathy For The Devil
TTITLE7=Working Class Hero
TTITLE8=Good Times
TTITLE9=Ozzy Osbourne with Kelly Osbourne / Changes
EXTD=CDDBSort:osbourne_ozzy,prince_of_darkness_dis c_4_of_4; YEAR: 2005
EXTT0=
EXTT1=
EXTT2=
EXTT3=
EXTT4=
EXTT5=
EXTT6=
EXTT7=
EXTT8=
EXTT9=
PLAYORDER=[/PHP]

Daz

[Spoon]

Re: XMCD Parsing

Ok will note down for a future release.

[DazBYorks]

Re: XMCD Parsing

Hi,

Thanks... along with Unix structured XMCD files?

Daz