Posts made by wengels464

@gudurana
Is there a 'front.jpg' or 'cover.jpg' in the folder alongside the files?

Have you verified using Picard or kid3 or something that the album art is embedded?

Which files are you using? FLAC, or something else?

EDIT: Words missing.

@half-fast

Just a suggestion: What about external metadata like a CUE file?

Sure, Strawberry can't read the tags straight from the DSF's but perhaps you can have an external cue sheet that it can pick up?

I'll give it a shot later tonight.

Point being: Would be a shame to down res your DSD into some sort of PCM before trying it.

@df

Classical metadata formatting is a bit of nightmare. You can't just run it through Picard and expect good results, sadly there's just legwork involved.

For me, I will have this sort of directory structure:

• Johann Sebastian Bach
  • St. Matthew Passion
    • The Bach Collegium Japan and Masaki Suzuki
    • The Vienna Philharmonic and Herbert Karajan
  • Goldberg Variations
    • Glenn Gould

etc. metadata usually looks like this:
Artist: [Composer]
Performer/Album Artist: [Solo Performer Full Name, The [Name] Orchestra and [Conductor] with [Soloist, Concertist]
e.g. The New York Philharmonic and Leonard Bernstein with Van Cliburn
Album: [Composition Name]
e.g. Piano Sonata No. 32 Op. 111
Here Beethoven and Maurizio Pollini are implied from the Artist and Album Artist Fields
Filename: Whatever, just keep it short enough so filesystem isn't mad.
Track Name: Piano Sonata No. 32 Op. 111 - Movement 2 Adagio molto e cantabile

Something like that. Consistency is key. I wish it was less of a pain in the ass but in the absence of recognized standards, you'll be translating things out of German, flipping around Artist/Album Artist, etc.

Foobar2000 and JRiver (Windows) both have good regex tools for standardizing things but like I said it's just tedious. I think it's worth it though.

@nitro322
Dang. Thanks for replying.

It's frustrating b/c DSF uses ID3v2 just like everything else, and taglib can clearly already 'see' the metadata in playback.

Who knows, might have to get off the bench and into the game and contribute. I have some basic dev skills (Python, C) and can probably help out. I just don't really know what that would involve.

I'll post again if I find a simple workaround.

@half-fast
I am having this issue but only with DSF files. FLAC files seem to work for me, but something about the tagging (ID3) of DSF files doesn't sit right with Strawberry. It can read the metadata when the files is being played but not when it's simply sitting in the scanned folder.

No great help, but at least a related issue.

@wengels464

Quick update: I realized that Strawberry only reads the tags when the files are actively being played, unlike FLAC which can be read in unplayed form. Issue still exists.

Hey everyone,

I'm able to play DSF files just fine in Strawberry, and I can even see their tags in the playback queue. But when I add them to a folder inside of a scanned directory (just like other FLAC files) they don't appear in Strawberry, even after full rescan.

Any ideas?

OS: Linux Mint
Version: 1.0.7
Tagger: Picard