Uploading files and reading ID3 tags

Hi,
I am implementing SermonSpeaker and am having trouble with a couple of things. After some fiddling I now have my MP3 files so that if I FTP the file to the correct folder and then use the "Tools" option to create a Sermon from Orphaned files the ID3 tag is read and works properly. This is very clever setup, well done.

When I try to upload the same file or simply click on the magic wand to read the ID3 tags whilst in the New Sermon page it fails. The ID3 tag simply says that it can't read the tags, but the upload gives me a 200 Error:



I suspect the 2 issues are linked.
How do I troubleshoot?

Also, I think I now understand that the ID3 tags need to be set up as ID3v2.3ISO-8859-1. I'm using MP3Tag to edit the tags, and this is the setting that seems to work. If I use this and nominate the correct tags then it all works really nicely. It would be helpful to update the FAQ with some of this data. Should I draft something up?

What version of ID3 tags didn't work. Afaik v2.3 is the current version, but older versions should also work with the library I use.

As for the error, you will have to check the server error log file (or ask your hoster) to see if there is anything logged which is related. Or it may be a permission issue (PHP needs read and write permissions to that folder)

Hi,
The ID3 wiki indicates that 2.4 is current and ther are 2 character sets used with 2.3. I haven't thoroughly tested both character sets with SermonSpeaker.

I'll check the web server with the uploading error. I don't have trouble uploading through the normal Joomla upload interfaces, so was surprised to have trouble here.

True enough, 2.4 is the current one and should in fact be supported by SermonSpeaker (as it uses the getid3 library).

Thanks, I have retested everything: uploads (200 error) & reading tags(both 2.3 and 2.4) , it all seems to work. I think I had a wrong path in the Options configuration. I thought I thoroughly tested this but must have missed something. My apologies for the inconvenience.

My last question is which ID3 fields do you use for Time and Playtime_seconds? Also is Playtime in seconds or milliseconds?
The rest seem to be as per the screen shot:

Common Name	Field populated in SermonSpeaker	ID3 v2.3 Tag code	Tag name in MP3TAG
playtime_seconds	Sermon Time	TLEN?	??
title	Title (falls back to filename if not present)	TIT2	TITLE
track	Sermon Number	TRCK	TRACK
year / date / time	Sermon Date	TYER /TDAT/ ????	YEAR / DATE/ ????
comment	Sermon Notes	COMM	COMMENT
album	Series	TALB	ALBUM
artist	Speaker	TOPE	ARTIST

NB Format for Year is “YYYY” and format for DATE is “DDMM”
NB ID3 standard for TLEN is in Milliseconds where as SermonSpeaker mentions seconds

I can't help you with MP3TAG, but simplest thing would be to just store the information using SermonSpeaker and then check the file using MP3TAG.

SermonSpeaker is using the getid3 library ( getid3.sourceforge.net/ ) to read and write the tags.