No metadata returned for MP3 about node-mp3info HOT 3 CLOSED

Here's the useful part of what id3 says about pizzarolls.mp3:

{ ULT: 
   { id: 'ULT',
     size: 1979,
     description: 'Unsychronized lyric/text transcription',
     data: { language: 'eng', descriptor: '', text: [Object] } },
  PIC: 
   { id: 'PIC',
     size: 403401,
     description: 'Attached picture',
     data: 
      { format: 'PNG',
        type: '32x32 pixels \'file icon\' (PNG only)',
        description: '\tPNG\r\n\u001a\n' } },
  TT2: 
   { id: 'TT2',
     size: 22,
     description: 'Title/Songname/Content description',
     data: 'Pizza Rolls (mashup)' },
  TP1: 
   { id: 'TP1',
     size: 13,
     description: 'Lead artist(s)/Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)/Performing group',
     data: 'sssShawnnnn' },
  TP2: 
   { id: 'TP2',
     size: 13,
     description: 'Band/Orchestra/Accompaniment',
     data: 'sssShawnnnn' },
  TYE: { id: 'TYE', size: 6, description: 'Year', data: '2013' },
  TBP: 
   { id: 'TBP',
     size: 5,
     description: 'BPM (Beats Per Minute)',
     data: '110' },
  TCO: 
   { id: 'TCO',
     size: 13,
     description: 'Content type',
     data: 'Pizza party' },

from node-mp3info.

Hi Daniel

first of all thanks for your input - unfortunately I have to disappoint you: mp3info project is quite old and hasn't been updated to handle id3 v.2 tags, so it won't handle images or tag data in encoding other than ascii.

So the only reason I decided to write native bindings is that it handles mp3 duration with variable bitrates really good.

For my maracuya-jukebox (https://github.com/bendi/maracuya-jukebox) project I decided to use a combination of already mentioned id3 library by Tim Smart and mp3info to get mp3 duration in seconds.

It turned out that id3 has issues on its own - eg. it handles latin1 strings incorrectly, but for the time being it's just a small obstacle so probably in future I'll do some fork/patch of id3 library.

You can check my metadata retrieval and db insert in here: https://github.com/bendi/maracuya-jukebox/blob/master/src/util/insert_track.js

Marek

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Daniel - small follow up :)

I finally got time to patch id3 (v. 0.0.3 with my patch is out: https://npmjs.org/package/id3) library so it can handle latin1 charset properly. In combination with node-mp3info you should do just fine.

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