MP3 With Genre "Audiobook" Shows up in Doubletwist as "(183)"
As its says in the title, I have several albums of mp3s for audiobooks with the genre set to "Audiobook". When putting them onto my phone and opening doubleTwist, I see them loaded with the genre "(183)". I can manually edit it to "Audiobook" in doubleTwist, which doesn't seem to edit the file at all but does correct the issue.
output of mediainfo for one of the files pasted below:
General
Complete name : Chapter 01 - The Boy Who Lived.mp3
Format : MPEG Audio
File size : 39.8 MiB
Duration : 31 min 52 s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 174 kb/s
Album : Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Album/Performer : Stephen Fry
Track name : The Boy Who Lived
Track name/Position : 01
Track name/Total : 17
Performer : Stephen Fry
Composer : J.K. Rowling
Genre : Audiobook
Recorded date : 1997
Writing library : LAME3.99r
Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Format settings : Joint stereo / MS Stereo
Duration : 31 min 52 s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 174 kb/s
Minimum bit rate : 32.0 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 kHz
Frame rate : 38.281 FPS (1152 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 39.8 MiB (100%)
Writing library : LAME3.99r
Encoding settings : -m j -V 0 -q 0 -lowpass 22.1 --vbr-new -b 32
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Probably unnecessary, but screenshot of what I'm seeing before I change anything:
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What software did you use to edit the metadata? What probably happened is that your software did not insert "Audiobook" into the metadata field for Genre but instead inserts (183). We can get around this by adding this tag to our table so that we "translate" (183) back to Audiobook.
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I think you're right, what confused me is that "mediainfo", as well as several other programs, were successfully reading the genre as "Audiobook". But I was able to reproduce the "(183)" bug in mpd + ncmpcpp.
The tag that got read as 183 was written by the program "easytag":
easytag 2.4.3
Website: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EasyTAGUsing kid3 to rewrite the tags seems to have fixed the issue
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