SPC titles in WA5

[40044004]

I noticed that the titles of snes SPC files are shown as their filename titles (such as 01, 02, etc) in the media library and playlist, as well as in the songticker, instead of actual song titles like in WA 2.9X. I'm not sure if this is the plugin's problem. It does this for snesamp and in_spc. The files play fine, however, but it would be helpful to know what song each file is before having to play every single one to find the one I want.
The "view file info" function doesn't seem to work for these either.

And keep up the good work with Winamp 5. It's much more than I could have wished for.

[Rellik]

It depends, whoever ripped the SPC files may have been lazy and not set any titles(you can check by viewing the file info), otherwise you may need to configure the SPC input plugin in the input preferences.

Curently I am using Alpha-II SPC Player, and I have the title string for that plugin set to

code:
%2[%9[%8[%8-]%9 ]%3 - %2|%1]

which will under normal circumstances, display "game - song title" before it displays the filename

[40044004]

The problem is that the titles embedded in the files themselves used to show up when I used WA 2.91. My preferences are set up like that in Alpha II's player. Plus the file info doesn't show up when I use WA5. Oh well, if it's the plugins' problem, I guess I'll use 2,91 to play spcs then. Thanks anyway.

[squall14716]

What is annoying is that when adding files to the media library, it doesn't ready the ID666 tags.

[shins]

alpha II SPC player 2.99+winamp5 RC10 displays the id666 tags properly in playlist and media library. Not sure what could be wrong, other than the tags not being filled in properly. Only problem I could see with the media library and view info, is that if you have winamp set to always on top, and the ML fills most of the screen, the id666 window gets stuck behind the ML. Also, the new winamp should be able to rename spcs indirectly by storying their info in the ML database file, and not the tags themselves. Still a quick way of fixing the bad name problems.

[pbmage]

I have the same id666 tag problem and if you don't use the media library, you won't have any problems with the playlist. That and the fact that I haven't found a way to dump my 210:41:17, 6392 song playlist into local media makes the media library useless to me. A more functional media library would be nice.

Third party plug-ins need to be updated to take advantage of the Media Library. This is the responsibility of the plug-in author, and has nothing to do with the Media Library.

[squall14716]

It seems more like the responsibility of the plugin, but yeah. The media library does NOT ready the ID666 tags, it guesses at the filenames which makes it completely useless when the filenames are like ff4-01.spc. The same could be said for PSFs I believe.

[pbmage]

True, but some plugins haven't been updated sence the 1.x days. Would it be possable to create a tag reading plugin?

The Media Library doesn't read any tags, the input plug-ins do and they pass the ML info. You will need an updated SPC plug-in.

[pbmage]

Let me rephrase that; an input plugin that only reads and edits tags of a file. YMAMP was last officially updated on 06/06/00. It plays Genesis GYM and Callus CYM files. It is also the newest plugin to do either and the only one I know of that does both.
Instead of creating a new plugin from scratch or trying to figure out someone else's uncommented code, wouldn't it be easier to create something else that does what the current plugin doesn't.
Or, better yet, make Advanced Title Formatting plugin based. Unless I've missed something, ATF and the ML use the same process to get their info. That would solve a lot of problems.

[DJ Egg]

The default input plugins already have internal Title Formatting options in their respective configs (in_mp3, in_vorbis, in_midi, in_mod). However, if Advanced Title Formatting is activated in Prefs -> Titles, then this overrides all individual plugin settings.

It is entirely up to the 3rd-party plugin author to either/both supply Title Formatting options in the plugin's options, or to update the plugin so that it correctly parses metadata. It has got nothing to do with Winamp code, the media library, or anyone here.

As with all 3rd-party plugins, if you are experiencing problems, contact the authors of any/all of the available SPC plugins. There's nothing we can do about it here.

Some previous potentially helpful threads:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=157797
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=138787
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=64589

[D&B]

Originally posted by Rellik
Curently I am using Alpha-II SPC Player, and I have the title string for that plugin set to

code:
%2[%9[%8[%8-]%9 ]%3 - %2|%1]

which will under normal circumstances, display "game - song title" before it displays the filename

Thanks for sharing that setup.

[Lion King]

plugin developers aren't to blame for this, nullsoft hasn't released an updated input plugin sdk yet that documents the metadata interface

btw. title formatting with input plugins that don't support the metadata interface (most plugins don't) works fine if you disable (guessed) metadata reading for those files:

ctrl+p > preferences > general > media library > library options > uncheck 'use library data for winamp title formatting'

you could also disable advanced title formatting completely if you don't need it for mp3 files

[Rellik]

Originally posted by badrad
Thanks for sharing that setup.

When I first installed the plugin, it always bugged me that files w/out the Id666 tags would show up as " - " rather then displaying the filename.

I'm no programmer by any means, but I do have a pretty good grasp on if|then|else behavior, so I figured out that by adding %2[x|%1] where x is the prefered Id666 string, it corrected the behavior.

The logic that it uses is: if the title(%2) exists then dispay the the x id666 string(%9[%8[%8-]%9 ]%3 - %2), otherwise just dispay the filename(%1).