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nesys
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Hi,
just a summary of what I've seen till now. I've scanned all my DSF library and
1. in the db it seems there are no "comments", even if I have in tags
2. in the db it seems there are also no MB details, even if the music is properly tagged with Picard
please double check and let me know if this is just my issue, or there is something to be implemented in Kodi?
thanks
Andrea
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Dave, DSF is very popular in the world of high resolution/high end audio (for those who don't know it's the native SACD digital format).
Personally I convert everything to PCM (FLAC) at 88.2kHz/24bit but there are many out there that won't use Kodi unless DSF is fully supported (which means tags too). A lot of work has already been done to get playback of DSF into Kodi.
I really think you need to do whatever you can to resolve/improve DSF tagging as there are thousands of existing SACD releases and new releases are still coming on a regular basis.
My 2 cents.
THX
Garry
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Thanks Dave for the feedback.
I'm in the last stage of renovating my home so no spare time right now. I may be able to jump in and get my feet wet in about 6 weeks or so. I know you are pretty busy trying to keep Music going. Very much appreciated by all here!
You may have an apprentice soon.
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spiff
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sacd provide all the metadata that is available. as for tags, those should be supported already through the ffmpeg tag loader. what's missing?
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Basically, its a good thing that SACDs contain album/track related info at all, which helps a player to show that info. On the negative side, that info is wildely inconsistent in its use of tag content and that's why I hate it with a passion. Some tag text is of a descriptive nature rather than using basic categories as one would expect.
When I tried out spiff's SACD ISO decoder in Kodi, the albums and tag info read were all over the place and messed up my carefully maintained tags of the rest of my music collection. Unfortunately, Kodi has no tag editing capabilities (yet), so this seriously triggers my male sorting OCD.
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Foobar2000 reports the track lengths correctly. You need to have both SACD and Wavpack plugins installed.