Can't see tags after adding about node-taglib-sharp

[vk22]

Works like a charm! Thank you very much!

[benrr101]

Hi, @vk22, apologies for the delay in getting back to you. This project has taken a bit of a back seat as work has given me plenty of stuff to work on (and my mom passed away a couple weeks ago which has taken up most of my time lately).

After some experimentation, I was able to reproduce your issue with a hex editor, kid3, foobar2000, and VLC on Windows. It looks like the issue is caused by the node-taglib-sharp library not properly updating AIFF length property in the header of the file. This property tells any decoders how long the file is. Not updating this value is not an issue when reading tags with the node-taglib-sharp library (and apparently in VLC, kid3, and itunes) because the library scans the file for the ID3 chunk header, regardless of how many bytes the property says the file is. Other libraries appear to only scan the file for as many bytes as the property says, which means it'll skip reading the tags node-taglib-sharp creates.

I'm working on a hotfix and will let you know when it is ready.

[vk22]

@benrr101 thanks a lot for your answer. In no case I didn't want to rush you with this, I understand that this is not your main job. And I am very sorry for your loss. Be strong.

[benrr101]

Good news, the fix is out v4.0.2 https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-taglib-sharp/v/4.0.2

It was a pretty easy fix, and to be honest I'm happy to have someone interested enough in the project to point out something not working right. Also thanks for the condolences 🙏

One quick thing I'll add - I completely forgot there's a much easier way to create an IPicture:

import {Picture} from "node-taglib-sharp";

const pic = Picture.fromPath("path/to/picture.jpg");
// pic.type defaults to FrontCover if you give it a picture, but you can always manually change for other types.

Let me know if you have any other issues 👍

[vk22]

Thank you very much! I will try it today and return with result.
Have a nice week!

[vk22]

Hey mate! Sorry, i have a question: which the best way to convert aif to flac with keeping all meta tags using node.js?
Thank you for answer.
Regards!

[benrr101]

Glad to hear it worked!
As for converting AIFF to FLAC using node.js... I'm not sure. The node-taglib-sharp library is just for doing tagging and reading properties of the files. If I were doing it, I'd probably try to use ffmpeg since it's very versatile for transcoding files. I've used it from the command line quite a bit to verify tags while I'm testing node-taglib-sharp stuff, so at the very least it's aware of tagging. There's at least one node.js binding for it you can check out https://www.npmjs.com/package/ffmpeg

[vk22]

Thank you for answer! I use ffmpeg now.
Regards!