Id3 Tags / Metadata being trimmed

Having the same problem. I tested the next dev version, this seems fixed in 2.x-dev.

maybe not, i only tried genre "0123456789012345678901234567890123456789", that worked but "Funk Rock" still comes out "Funk Roc" ...

this seems a dupe of
http://drupal.org/node/135127

maybe thats two issues:

input:

FunkRock

saved db entry:

FunkRoc

saved to file:
FunkRock

I think the problem is in
function audio_clean_tag()

i don't think this is the getid3 module

argh, I give up on that today, the last guess seems wasn't right, the tag comes in already trimmed

This is a getID3 library problem. The error is line 647 of module.tag.id3v2.php, version 1.7.8b1. The = should be ==.

Bug report here: http://www.getid3.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=727

worked :-) a simple typo

thanks for the support, i should have considered, that this is a getid3 problem.

marked http://drupal.org/node/161852 as a duplicate of this... perhaps i should change the recommended version back to 1.7.7?

Are you recommending I go back to getID3 1.7.7? Or should I edit the 'module.tag.id3v2.php' file, as suggested by Darren Oh?

i think either would work. editing the 1.7.8 might be best.

I tried Darren Oh's getID3 fix on my local site:

This is a getID3 library problem. The error is line 647 of module.tag.id3v2.php, version 1.7.8b1. The = should be ==.

Bug report here: http://www.getid3.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=727

Now the Metadata tag's last character is replaced by a "?" (after I've edited the node). Hmm. Different but similar problem.

I'm going to try and go back to the previous getID3 version. Thanks for your help, anyway. :)

marked http://drupal.org/node/163578 as a duplicate

marked http://drupal.org/node/166425 as a duplicate.

making this active so it's easier for people to find. still something i'm not going to fix though.

changing the recommended version back to 1.7.7. committing this to HEAD and DRUPAL-5.

Audio Import is still broken.. But editing the node itself is fixed..
I tried 1.7.7 1.7.6 & 1.7.5 with Audio 5.x-1.x-dev
1.7.6 from sourceforge is really 1.7.5 btw and 1.7.5 throws errors.

nevermind.. I was reimporting the same audio files, that seem to have had their tags rewritten by the bug.

marked http://drupal.org/node/175322 as a duplicate

@ #8 You quoted the wrong line. Here's the exact text from the forum post:

You must edit the file "module.tag.id3v2.php"
on line 646 you must put an equlity sign == double equals sign intead of the single = sign

if ($string[strlen($string)-1] = "\x00")

becomes

if ($string[strlen($string)-1] == "\x00")

That's a nasty little bug! ;)

Should be line 646 not 647.

marked http://drupal.org/node/178067 as a duplicate

The problem is that the current release still recommends version 1.7.8b. Can we get a new release?

-dev suggest 1.7.7 but a new release isn't a bad idea.

http://drupal.org/node/178315

i marked a bunch of issues that were duplicates of this as duplicates of http://drupal.org/node/156476 . i'm going to mark this as active just so people can find it easily.

short fix is to downgrade getid3 to 1.7.7.

Hi Drewish, you directed me to this thread from my previous one about iTunes mp3s creating question marks etc....

But unfortunately the quick fix described here is to downgrade to GetID3 1.7.7 - which is what I'm already using according to the audio.module getid3 status message?

I can supply a problem iTunes mp3 if it would help?

if we won't get in trouble for copyright violations, post it, otherwise drop me a message and i'll hit you back with an email you can send it to... or if it's posted some place just post the link.

Thanks Drewish - have just emailed you

marked http://drupal.org/node/215736 as a duplicate.

I'm getting the same problem although the question marks don't show up on Safari, they do on Firefox. I'm using getid3 1.7.7, audio 1.3, drupal 5.6. I can edit the question marks off but my users won't be able to do this.

I get exactly the same question marks problem - screenshot here

I can edit the content item and just delete them, but not so easy for my users.

Using Drupal 5.6, Audio 1.3 and getID3 1.7.7

Thanks!

Subscribing - same issue as facelikebambi - I am using Drupal 5.7, getID3 1.7.7, latest Dev version of audio node (5.x-1.x-dev), and firefox.

BTW - When I was zipping through the forums (I've done it 2 times to see if anyone else was having this issue) I blew right past this because mine is NOT chopping off the last character, I am getting a %00 character (I'm using pathauto, so %00 is what's showing up in the url), which if I understand correctly, is a NUL character, which is being replaced by the lovely diamond question mark (as shown in facelikebambi's screenshot). Glad I read through this whole thing to find this.

Yup I've still got the question marks being added to certain MP3s also...

I posted an issue before, which I've reopened.
http://drupal.org/node/186801

BrianJubal - You guys might like to add to that issue page as well, to avoid others overlooking it on this page, as you and I both did initially due to the top of this page being actually about another bug altogether.

I was having the same problem with some mp3's displaying the diamond question marks. I've solved the issue by changing the encoding of id3v2 to ISO-8859-1 (instead of UTF-8).

to do this, edit "audio_getid3.module" and edit line 254 (or thereabouts), change:

to:

I'm not sure if this has any other side effects, but it seems to be working fine for me.

I don't know if your fix has any side effects, but based on the nature of what is happening (substitution strings) I can't imagine there being any side effects to the fix in http://drupal.org/node/186801.

i *think* this is fixed so i'm going to close this issue. please re-open if that's not the case.

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.