I installed the playlist generator, and I can play mp3 files with it. However, as several other users have also noticed, the generator fails to extract all the metadata from the files. When I point my browser directly at xspf_generator.php and "View Page Source" I see that the creator and album tags elements are empty:
FYI how the mp3's were created: I used iTunes 7 to import a CD using the mp3 encoder (iTunes -> Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced tab -> Importing tab, select mp3 encoder). The imported files all contained metadata. For example, here is an octal dump of the first few hundred bytes of track 3:
0000012 TT2
0000021 Flashbax
0000032 TP1
0000041 Oasis
0000047 TAL
0000056 All Around The World (US Release)
0000120 TRK
0000127 3/3
0000133 COM
0000142 engiTunPGAP
0000161 TEN
0000170 iTunes v7.6.1.9
0000210 COM
0000217 engiTunNORM
0000233 000022A1 000023DA 0000EDCE 0000C93B 0003356D 0003356D 00008D5E 00008BA4 00037F1A 0000B849
0000366 COM
0000375 engiTunSMPB
0000411 00000000 00000210 00000924 0000000000CF96CC 00000000 005E19CC 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0000576 COM
0000605 engiTunes_CDDB_IDs
0000630 3+119B02AA32674E2FEBF8EEB27FEFB072+532708
0000702 TCO
(The Track title is "Flashbax," the artist is "Oasis" and the album is "All Around the World")
What am I doing wrong?
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I installed the playlist generator, and I can play mp3 files with it. However, as several other users have also noticed, the generator fails to extract all the metadata from the files. When I point my browser directly at xspf_generator.php and "View Page Source" I see that the creator and album tags elements are empty:
<creator></creator>
<album></album>
<title>Flashbax</title>
FYI how the mp3's were created: I used iTunes 7 to import a CD using the mp3 encoder (iTunes -> Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced tab -> Importing tab, select mp3 encoder). The imported files all contained metadata. For example, here is an octal dump of the first few hundred bytes of track 3:
0000012 TT2
0000021 Flashbax
0000032 TP1
0000041 Oasis
0000047 TAL
0000056 All Around The World (US Release)
0000120 TRK
0000127 3/3
0000133 COM
0000142 engiTunPGAP
0000161 TEN
0000170 iTunes v7.6.1.9
0000210 COM
0000217 engiTunNORM
0000233 000022A1 000023DA 0000EDCE 0000C93B 0003356D 0003356D 00008D5E 00008BA4 00037F1A 0000B849
0000366 COM
0000375 engiTunSMPB
0000411 00000000 00000210 00000924 0000000000CF96CC 00000000 005E19CC 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0000576 COM
0000605 engiTunes_CDDB_IDs
0000630 3+119B02AA32674E2FEBF8EEB27FEFB072+532708
0000702 TCO
(The Track title is "Flashbax," the artist is "Oasis" and the album is "All Around the World")
What am I doing wrong?
I think because the album name contains special characters () it might be causing an ommission.