[SOLVED] Amarok2 (v2.1.1) and IDE tags on MP3 files

[jankushka]

hi all.

i'm a trying to have amarok read my ide tags.
i set them with with eyeD3.
all is well for: artist, album, track number, title and genre.
but amarok doesn't seem to understand: year.

i tried both with the default:

eyeD3 --year=nnnn filename

and with the addition of a user text frame (upper case "Year" or lower case "year")

eyeD3 --set-user-text-frame="Year:nnnn" filename
eyeD3 --set-user-text-frame="year:nnnn" filename

here's an example of a tag set with eyeD3:

...
Porcupine_Tree_-_2007_-_Fear_Of_A_Blank_Planet_-_03.Anesthetize.mp3   [ 31.88 MB ]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------   
Time: 17:42   MPEG1, Layer III    [ ~251 kb/s @ 44100 Hz - Joint stereo ]   
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------   
ID3 v2.4:                                      
title: Anesthetize       artist: Porcupine Tree               
album: Fear Of A Blank Planet      year: 2007
track: 3        genre: Progressive Rock (id 92)

UserTextFrame: [Description: year]
2007
...

as you can see, the tag seems to be set properly.

now, amarok only likes it if i set that value with amarok itself.
which is obviously not what i want to do, considering the amount of stuff i (like many others) have.
i want to automate this process.

any hints
is this a feature/choice/bug in amarok?
am i missing something?

cheers.

---
ps:
amarok doesn't read cover art, from the tags, either.
but i can live with that, for now.
the "year" thing is a bit annoying, though.

[Rog131]

Re: Amarok2 (v2.1.1) and IDE tags on MP3 files

Have you tried the tags with the other apps ? mp3diags ? kid3 ?

Are those seeing the tags ?

[jankushka]

[SOLVED] Re: Amarok2 (v2.1.1) and IDE tags on MP3 files

i don't know mp3diags.
i've used kid3 in the past.
if i set the "year" field from within amarok, it shows up under "Date" in kid3.
guess that comes from the v1 tags times, when "year" wasn't there ?!?
if i set the "year" using the "--year" option in eyeD3, it shows up under "TDRL" in kid3.
and the "Date" frame is empty

the question now is:
how do i write in the "Date" frame with eyeD3 since there's no option for that?

the answer is to use the "--set-text-frame="TDRC:nnnn" option.

i've found this post very useful.
it talks about tags, amarok, ...

thanks for your help.

btw:
eyeD3 is officially supported by canonical.
the other tools aren't.
no big deal.
thought i'd just mention it.