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slotmachine
Aug 11, 2016Tutor
ReadyDNLA bizarre handling of MP3 tags
I have a few mp3 files that are tagged as follows; Artist Artist1 feat. Artist 2, Artist3 & Artist 4 AlbumArtist Artist1 feat. Artist 2, Artist3 & Artist 4 For these files ReadyDLNA seems to...
slotmachine
Aug 11, 2016Tutor
Having looked inside the ReadyDNLA files.db there seems to be a few different instances as well;
Artist1 Vs Artist2 + Artist3 Vs Artist4
Artist1 Presents Artist 2 feat. Artist3
Skywalker
Aug 12, 2016NETGEAR Expert
It really has nothing to do with the ampersand. If the ID3 tag contains a field that is longer than 48 characters, it just gets called "Various Artists". The reason is because we ran across some media players that would buffer overflow and crash if these fields contained any longer strings. I suppose an alternative would be to just truncate at 48 characters.
- slotmachineAug 12, 2016Tutor
Can you explore changing to truncating? Much more user friendly.
- StephenBAug 12, 2016Guru - Experienced User
slotmachine wrote:
Can you explore changing to truncating? Much more user friendly.
I suggest posting that suggestion in the idea exchange - that will put it on Netgear's list of possible enhancements.
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