Scanmode Metadata: FMPEG native vs. mixed ?

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Scanmode Metadata: FMPEG native vs. mixed ?

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Hi,
for me, the shown tooltip is nebulous and its unclear to me, what effect this setting will have.

What are the advantages of FFMPEG against the internal library, if ?

What exactly does "Better results" mean ?

What kind of metadata are we talkin about? Is it visible webgui metadata or technical background metadata?
Go to: Settings->Admin Panel->Scanmode Metadata
Go to: Settings->Admin Panel->Scanmode Metadata
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Re: Scanmode Metadata: FMPEG native vs. mixed ?

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Scanmode: NATIVE

Use only the fast internal jaudiotagger library, which doesn't support newer file formats like:

aac, aiff, dff, dsf, opus, ogg, flac, mod, mid, it, s3m, xm


Scanmode: MIXED

Use also the external tool FFMPEG for parsing, like the contentlength and media metadata (title, artist, ...).

But this mode take more read operations on the filesystem and a larger memory footprint while scanning.

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Re: Scanmode Metadata: FMPEG native vs. mixed ?

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That little word 'also' made it clearer to me. So FFMPEG is used additionally to jaudiotagger, when selecting MIXED.
Madevil wrote:Use also the external tool FFMPEG for parsing
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Re: Scanmode Metadata: FMPEG native vs. mixed ?

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yes, will change this in the help topic :thumbsup: ;)
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