Can't change file Metadata
  • Vote Up0Vote Down VerheekVerheek
    Posts: 158Member
    When I try to submit changed meta-data for a file in the library, I get "Value is required and can't be empty" below Title and Artist. It doesn't seem to matter which one I choose although I haven't tried them all.

    Also some MP4s that I converted to MP3 with FFMPEG do not show any information during playback. Those files have something in the Title field but nothing in the Artist field. I can't change that due to the issue above but nevertheless, the metadata sent during playout is "unknown". I guess both Title and Artist have to be filled out for it to work?

    Jeremy
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Paul BaranowskiPaul Baranowski
    Posts: 389Member, Administrator, Sourcefabric Team
    On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Verheek <
    airtime-support@lists.sourcefabric.org> wrote:

    > When I try to submit changed meta-data for a file in the library, I get
    > "Value is required and can't be empty" below Title and Artist. It doesn't
    > seem to matter which one I choose although I haven't tried them all.
    >

    We just discovered that bug ourselves this morning, thanks for pointing that
    out.



    > Also some MP4s that I converted to MP3 with FFMPEG do not show any
    > information during playback. Those files have something in the Title field
    > but nothing in the Artist field. I can't change that due to the issue above
    > but nevertheless, the metadata sent during playout is "unknown". I guess
    > both Title and Artist have to be filled out for it to work?
    >
    > Jeremy
    >

    Yes, was the metadata lost when you did the conversion?

    - Paul

  • Vote Up0Vote Down VerheekVerheek
    Posts: 158Member
    Yes the metadata was lost in conversion.

    Jeremy
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Martin KonecnyMartin Konecny
    Posts: 1,860Member
    Hi Verheek,

    I'm a little confused about your post. Was the problem with your MP4->MP3 encoder or is this a bug with Airtime?
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Paul BaranowskiPaul Baranowski
    Posts: 389Member, Administrator, Sourcefabric Team
    In that case, it's a problem with the conversion you have rather than with
    Airtime. Airtime just looks at the metadata in the file in order know what
    to display.

    Paul Baranowski
    CTO, Sourcefabric, http://sourcefabric.org

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    On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Verheek <
    airtime-support@lists.sourcefabric.org> wrote:

    > Yes the metadata was lost in conversion.
    >
    > Jeremy
    >
    >

  • Vote Up0Vote Down VerheekVerheek
    Posts: 158Member
    Well it was both because the metadata wasn't converted but then I couldn't manually enter either. In anycase both are solved now.

    Thanks!
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