Three real bugs in "Auto-tag from Amazon"-dialogue

Marcus · Post by **Marcus** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 7:23 pm

These bugs apply to the "Auto-tag from Amazon"-dialogue and its functions only.

1. In version 2.5.3.968 it's no longer possible to resize the file list horizontally. I believe it was possible in the previous version.

2. When track names contain the character - (minus), the tag function only use the part of the string up to the -, the rest is trimmed. Example:
"Parita 1 B - Dur B Flat Major, BWV 825: Praeludium" becomes "Parita 1 B"

3. When the album name contains the character / and you choose to download the album cover, instad of replacing / with something a filesystem would allow in a filename, it creates new folders. Saving a cover named "Spirit / Light / Speed" would create a file with the path ./Spirit/Light/Speed.jpg

Bug 3 is rather serious, since it could be exploited (if Amazon or the network connection is compromised). Consider an album named "c:\windows\..." or "/etc/passwd".

Steegy · Post by **Steegy** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 7:57 pm

1) works fine for me

2) annoying and should be fixed, but you can search manually too

3) should certainly be fixed! What would happen if you tagged Marco V's single "C:\Del *.MP3" ??

Marcus · Post by **Marcus** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 10:48 pm

Steegy wrote:1) works fine for me

2) annoying and should be fixed, but you can search manually too

3) should certainly be fixed! What would happen if you tagged Marco V's single "C:\Del *.MP3" ??

Perhaps 1 only occurs when you install the new version (non-skinned) over the old one, as I did.

2 is not about searching, it's about tagging songs. When the tracks/titles returned by Amazon contains a - (minus) somewhere in their names, and you tag files to use those titles, only the left hand side of the title (before the -) is saved to the tags (as explained in my example).

Bugs 2 and 3 existed in the previous release too by the way, so they're not new.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:01 pm

Correction:

Marcus wrote: ... and you tag files to use those titles ...
... and you tag files with those titles ...

Marcus · Post by **Marcus** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:49 am

1 wasn't a bug, it was my high mouse speed that made me miss the grabbable part of the window.

The other two bugs are real though.

kdeemer · Post by **kdeemer** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:59 am

I second the concern about bug 2. This makes Auto-Tagging with Amazon useless for any sort of compilation. Their convention is to list tracks as 'Title ' Artist'. Since nothing after the dash is written to the tag, no Artist information is ever written to the tag.

Teknojnky · Post by **Teknojnky** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:26 am

Steegy wrote:3) should certainly be fixed! What would happen if you tagged Marco V's single "C:\Del *.MP3" ??

Actually, this track gets save as a subdirectory path too.

Any track with a "" in the tag gets an improper subdirectory added, its not just tag from amazon, it affects auto-organize.