Most of my music is encoded as WMA, but some of it is MP3. I noticed when I first installed a beta version of Frodo that I there was a field in the album info that displayed what seemed to be a random number instead of the year - this might have been true for Eden, as well. Later, I noticed that the album artist was, quite often, completely missing, as well, though other artists were included. Recently, I installed version 12.1 and noticed that it is still doing the same thing.
Note that the album artist appears to have been read properly at some point because I can list my music by artist and everything appears in the right place. If I list music by year I see the same random numbers I see in the album info when playing the song.
I finally figured out that this is only a problem with WMA encoded files. The files I have looked at that are MP3 encoded display the year and album artist properly.
I did most of the WMA encoding (128Kbps) with Windows Media Player on an XP machine about 5 years ago. Afterward, I used mp3tag (http://www.mp3tag.de/en) to edit the tags. The music is all shared from a folder on the XP machine. The files look right on WMP on that XP machine as well as WMP and Media Center on two different Windows 7 machines. Also, if I look at my shared files via explorer on either Windows 7 machine the metadata displays correctly in the info pane, even on the machine that is running XBMC.
So, I am 99% sure this is a problem with XBMC. I'm also pretty sure that most people who run XBMC are using MP3 files and not WMA. Before submitting a bug report, I thought I would post here and see if anyone else has seen the same problem,
I'd post some screen shots but I'm not sure how to do it. Does XBMC have this capability or do I need to download something else to be able to grab screen shots?
Note that the album artist appears to have been read properly at some point because I can list my music by artist and everything appears in the right place. If I list music by year I see the same random numbers I see in the album info when playing the song.
I finally figured out that this is only a problem with WMA encoded files. The files I have looked at that are MP3 encoded display the year and album artist properly.
I did most of the WMA encoding (128Kbps) with Windows Media Player on an XP machine about 5 years ago. Afterward, I used mp3tag (http://www.mp3tag.de/en) to edit the tags. The music is all shared from a folder on the XP machine. The files look right on WMP on that XP machine as well as WMP and Media Center on two different Windows 7 machines. Also, if I look at my shared files via explorer on either Windows 7 machine the metadata displays correctly in the info pane, even on the machine that is running XBMC.
So, I am 99% sure this is a problem with XBMC. I'm also pretty sure that most people who run XBMC are using MP3 files and not WMA. Before submitting a bug report, I thought I would post here and see if anyone else has seen the same problem,
I'd post some screen shots but I'm not sure how to do it. Does XBMC have this capability or do I need to download something else to be able to grab screen shots?