STYLE Description & Comment(s)

[mista_j]

Issue description:

I did a simple test to add MOOD, STYLE, DESCRIPTION etc. to a “single” (one track).

MOOD tag appeared as expected, the style tag is nowhere to be found & I’m not sure why. According to the “supported features table” the style tag is not supported on local devices, but neither is mood, multiple artists, multiple genres, languages & those all seem to work perfectly for me. So I’m not sure if I just got lucky everywhere else or…?

I’ve also noticed if my track is tagged with a description & a comment the description shows up under description in the album’s about section but the track details shows the description as a comment, If there is a comment tagged to that file it is not visible. Is this in error or is this expected behavior? Why?

Logs:

Upload description: Please See Images

Additional information:

 
FLAC file - Vorbis Comments
 

Reproduction steps:

 
I tagged a FLAC file in MP3tag with the fields that are listed in the 1st image. Notable Tags: STYLE, Description & Comment. After saving these tags I copied the file to my android device. The file was loaded into the app as seen in images 2 & 3
 

Media provider:

Local device

Screenshots:

 

 

 

  

[Tolriq]

There’s 2 lines for local device depending on what you use

Supported features by media providers

Symfonium is a feature-rich application with a wide range of capabilities. The app supports numerous media providers as sources for music, but not all providers can deliver the same amount of data or features via their APIs. This post aims to showcase the features that each provider supports (or does not support). Any features not listed in this chart should be supported by all providers. Multi artist per song Multi genre per song Album mood Album style Tags / Collections Song BPM Album…

There’s no official tag for Styles so it’s not supported.

description is for album yes, but comment should be visible on the song.

Upload the track to https://upload.symfonium.app to check.

[mista_j]

The Style tags I expected to be a bit funky or not work all together, but I did want to give it a try anyways to make sure I understood the documentation I was reading. Worse case nothing happens & I move on.

The Description & comment seemingly overshadowing one another did seem rather odd to me though, not sure where my mistake was.

[Tolriq]

So seems MP3Tag also set the description as the xiph comment leading to overwrite of the comment field. Will priorise the actual tags over the xiph comment as it’s more explicit anyway.

[mista_j]

Hmm, so in my case with mp3tag as it currently functions I cannot utilize description & comment tags simultaneously otherwise it will be left with only the one field. Is there another way specifically that mp3tag should / could be writing these tags to avoid this?

I did attempt to replicate this issue with files of alternate formats, tagging a comment & description on the following files gave me these results.

OPUS - Description Overwrites comment

MP4 - Description & Comment both Visible
MP3 - Description & Comment both Visible
WAV - Description & Comment both Visible

So this is specifically an issue with Vorbis Comment tags it seems. If you have any suggestions I can forward over to the people over at mp3tag please let me know. I hope is not one of those issues that’s just “…the way the cookie crumbles”

[Tolriq]

I just told you I’ll change the priority on my side to ignore the xiph comment if there’s an actual comment tag.

But you can ask them why they put the description as the xiph comment and not the actual comment.