[FFmpeg-user] id3 tags not really removed?

[Rodolfo Medina]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina at gmail.com> writes:

> Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Moritz Barsnick <barsnick at gmx.net> writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 13:10:18 +0200, Cley Faye wrote:
>>>> A shot in the dark here since I didn't have the patience to look at how
>>>> -write_id3v1 work; but if I remember correctly, id3v1 tags are actually
>>>> appended at the end of the mp3 stream in such a way that some older player
>>>> would even play them, causing a small burst of audio at the end of such
>>>> file.
>>>> 
>>>> If ffmpeg really doesn't handle them when reading the stream, it would
>>>> explain why 1- they get copied during stream copy, 2- why older tag would
>>>> still show up first, and maybe also 3- why the new tag would show up after
>>>> initial playing of the file, if the reader actually move from the end of
>>>> the file to detect them after reading.
>>>
>>> That was my assumption, and why I suggested using the additional
>>>option. But I have had enough of shooting in the dark. I created a file with
>>>both v1 and v2 ID3 tags: $ ffmpeg -f lavfi -i anoisesrc -c:a libmp3lame
>>>-metadata title='Where is this found?' -write_id3v1 1 -t 1 -ac:a 1 -b:a 24k
>>>tmp/id3tagtest.mp3
>>>
>>> and converted it in three different ways: $ ffmpeg -i tmp/id3tagtest.mp3
>>> -metadata title='This is the new tag!' -c copy
>>> tmp/id3tagtest_copied_and_new_matadate_no_explicit_id3v1.mp3 $ ffmpeg -i
>>> tmp/id3tagtest.mp3 -write_id3v1 1 -metadata title='This is the new tag!' -c
>>> copy tmp/id3tagtest_copied_and_new_matadate_explicit_id3v1.mp3 $ ffmpeg -i
>>> tmp/id3tagtest.mp3 -map_metadata -1 -c copy
>>> tmp/id3tagtest_copied_and_map_metadata_minus_1.mp3
>>>
>>> and apparently ffmpeg *always* overwrites or at least deletes the old
>>> ID3v1 tag. None of the three resulting files contained a leak of the
>>> old tag. (Inspected with "strings".) Period, 'nuff said.
>>>
>>> So, unless I missed something, it's the player's fault.
>>
>>
>> It seems so.  Sorry for having engaged people in a problem that does not
>> concern ffmpeg.  Now I changed not only tags, but also file names and the
>> player still sees old file names.  When I click over them to listen to them,
>> another song is played in place of them.  It's sort of been crazy (after
>> having driven *me* crazy! ;-) ).
>
>
> ...then, after a while, say some hours, it suddenly detects the changes and
> shows the right new file names and tags.  So it seems that Moritz was right
> when speaking of some sort of `cache' my mplayer is doing...

...Unless this caching problem is not concerning the USB stick memory
though...  Possibile?

Rodolfo