Encoding of music metadata

[LiaraAlis 15]

Hi together,

 

I have .wav-files tagged with MP3Tag. These files contain japanese characters in the tags (example see in screenshot).

 

But in emby files are not correctly displayed. Instead of japenese characteres there are only question marks.

 

If I play the file with VLC, all characteres are correctly displayed.

 

Unfortunately, using the "refresh metadata" function also does not solve this problem.

 

What can I do to solve this issue?

 

Best regards,
Alexander

[pwhodges 2014]

I can confirm that this happens - I took some OGG files with Japanese metadata, and converted them to WAV format; the conversion lost the metadata, which I then added back using MP3Tag.  The result was metadata that displayed in Emby as question marks.  However, that same metadata also displayed in Windows Explorer as question marks, and also wasn't editable there.

 

My recollection is that metadata is not really standardised in WAV files and people just kind-of hack it in, and so I presume that programs and libraries either look for it in different ways, or in some way misinterpret what they see.

 

The most obvious workaround is to reencode the files in another format in which metadata is handled properly.  If a non-compressed file is required than FLAC (which is lossless compression) is the obvious one to use.  Of course, the program you use to reencode may also lose or corrupt the metadata, so you might need to use MP3Tag to transfer it yourself.  For example, I found one program which correctly transferred the title in Japanese, but failed to recognise the album,  year, and track number.

 

Paul

Edited February 3, 2020 by pwhodges

[LiaraAlis 15]

Hi pwhodges,

 

thanks for your answer. I also thought about that is caused by the "hacky" integration for ID3-tags in .wav files, so I also considered to rip the cd again as FLAC.

And you're right: Windows can't also display the characters correctly, but VLC can. So it would be very nice if emby could do the same.

 

Alexander

[Luke 42090]

Please see explanation here:

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/45139-music-metadata/?p=809944

 

Thanks.

[LiaraAlis 15]

Please see explanation here:

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/45139-music-metadata/?p=809944

 

Thanks.

 

Thank you for this explanation. So I will change from wav to flac, it seems to be the best way.