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Topic: [foobar & m-TAGS] Problems with max tag length (Read 1184 times) previous topic - next topic
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[foobar & m-TAGS] Problems with max tag length

Hi guys,

I've been using foobar 1.4.2 and m-TAGS component for a while, and so far it works perfectly.
Recently I have tried to introduce some really long custom tags (ex : one of the longest is 2267 chars long, supposed to be split in 76 values, and it may not be the longest).
Those tags are written perfectly by foobar + m-TAGS to the !.tags text files, but foobar doesn't seem to handle them well afterwards (see at the end).
I understand that foobar may limit tag length in some ways due to conventional embedded tags, but since m-TAGS writes tags to !.tags text files, why should there be any length limitation ?

Bottom line :
- What are exactly foobar's current tag limitations ? (max length, max number of values per tag field...)
- Can something be done to improve this ?

Thanks.

PS : here are my current problems :
- Such long tags don't appear to be searchable anymore (if I search for a text within these tags I don't get results). None of the searches work : Library search, Facets search, EsPlaylist search...
- I can't split them with the masstagger (e.g. "split fields by separator" doesn't work on them)
- On Facets, such long tags appear as simply "."
- ...

Re: [foobar & m-TAGS] Problems with max tag length

Reply #1 –
You need to adjust the settings in LargeFieldsConfig.txt to your needs.

Re: [foobar & m-TAGS] Problems with max tag length

Reply #2 –
Wow ! That was so easy ! Thanks fbuser for that amazing tip.

I had been looking for such settings in the Advanced preferences (and maybe they should be included actually, because I would never have thought of modifying a separate text file, lol).

FYI I had to set defaultMetaMax=6000 , because my longest string appeared to be just a little over 5000 chars.

Re: [foobar & m-TAGS] Problems with max tag length

Reply #3 –
Quote from: wcs13 on
I had to set defaultMetaMax=6000 , because my longest string appeared to be just a little over 5000 chars.
Quote from LargeFieldsConfig.txt: Note, size limit values are in UTF-8 bytes, not characters!