#musicbrainz

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anyone on who has experience using mutagen?

i'm trying to shove album art into an mp3 and I can't seem to construct the APIC frame correctly

how are you doing it?

opening a file in rb mode

then

setting the data field of the APIC contructor to file.read()

apicframe = APIC(encoding=3,mime="image/jpeg",type=3,desc='Front Cover',data=artfileobj.read())

and the file is in fact a jpg

looks fine so far

hm

what is the problem?

i wonder if it's tag order

when i load the mp3 in picard the art doesn't show u

can you pastebin the whole script/file?

hm

or the relevant parts

you want the tag manipulation part?

hang on

picard doesn't seem to like this other file that works properly in another tagger

or wait, where it's not showing up in picard?

it will never show up if the file is on the right side

when you show details?

anywhere, on the right side it will show only MB metadata

ah

if you drag it back to left, it should show it to you

hm

it won't let me drag it back

whoa

that one worked

sweet!

ok

I'm writing a script that'll take a flac image file, transcode to mp3, then tag the hell out of it

drop table trm;

does every tag from the wiki MusicBrainzTag except TRM UUID and PUID UUID

however it's not smart about release country, it picks the earliest release date's

picard does the same thing

How could it be smart about release country?

it could read your mind

there is a new python module for that

Ah, that.

Yeah, I heard about it, but it apparently had some feedback problem.

I think it called makeJelly() function without proper parameters or something like that.

:)

haha

well

you could tie discids to releases

i mean

release events

i would think that would be sufficient

Yeah, that would be nice. Possibly.

Some people have added release/discId mappings into release annotations.

or just NGS ofcourse.

meanie! keeping it to yourself :(

hm

itunes not support id3v2.4?

right

it kind of supports it, but really doesn't

id3v2.4 for itunes is id3v2.3 with specified version 4

so i guess the question of the hour is, what tag needs to exist for itunes to recognize album art?

id3v2.3, not doable with stock mutagen

;_;

check out picard's sources

there is a class which allows id3v2.3 tag saving

so i found compatid3.py

yes, that one

which has the update_to_v23()

well, that's not the main function

that's just to convert existing frames to 2.3

file.update_to_v23(); file.save(v2=3) is what you want to save id3v2.3 tags

so just those two functions should take care of it?

yes

luks: You've managed to create a suitable DB schema for NGS?

srotta: for my personal version of NGS, yes

Ok 8)

people think of NGS as a solution to everything, so obviously I don't have a DB schema for that :)

Yeah. I wouldn't be too keen on creating that either :P

if i give picard an mp3 tagged properly with UFID, will it fill in everything else?

i.e. will it just believe it

smgoller: I think it will not, but that's a bug

it needs the release id currently

what if it has both?

then it will work fine

ok

so for writing tags in picard, i should select write 2.3 tags, and use what, utf-16?

yes

that works fine in itunes, wmp and most HW players

ok

hmm, luks, you know the tracks on more than one album thing? will the current track ids still be unique (i.e. you'd know which release you have from the track id) or would they refer to the merged track?

nikki: track ids will refer to merged tracks

so it sounds like if i just retune my transcoder to put in just release and track uuids, then process everything with picard, i should be good

so you need a release id to find on which release it's on

ahh ok

smgoller: yes

if a 2.4 apic tag exists, will picard rewrite it as 2.3 or kill it?

depends on your settings

if you disable any cover art downloaders, and set it to keep existing tags, it will rewrite it as 2.3

aha, found it

good moaning

is there an album art plugin or something?

yes

fun in the sun! bye!

ah. I'm embedding album art in the flac images so that shouldn't be necessary

well, MB might not always have cover art. it depends on Amazon for that

oh, it pulls from MB?

yes

(from Amazon)