While it's a bit tough to plow through, the definitive reference, such as it is, for id3 tags (the ones used in mp3 files) is located here: http://www.id3.org/develop.html
For the three "sort order" tags, here is the explanation from that web site: > TSOA > The 'Album sort order' frame defines a string which should be used > instead of the album name (TALB) for sorting purposes. E.g. an album > named "A Soundtrack" might preferably be sorted as "Soundtrack". > > TSOP > The 'Performer sort order' frame defines a string which should be > used instead of the performer (TPE2) for sorting purposes. > > TSOT > The 'Title sort order' frame defines a string which should be used > instead of the title (TIT2) for sorting purposes. The example is a bit lame. A better example, for album title, might be, for the Album called "The Very Best of Ray Charles", you might set TSOA to be "Ray Charles, The Very Best of" Notice that much extant software will remove "The" from the beginning of Album titles but might be baffled by "Very Best of". If you like last names first for Artists, you might chose to code TSOP as "Dylan, Bob" and "Petty, Tom" or even "Petty, Tom & the Heartbreakers". Again, some software, including SlimServer, can take "The Beatles" and sort it as "Beatles, The", but if you don't know what software might be looking at your tags, or if several different pieces of software (iTunes, jRiver, kMart, etc) might be looking at the tags, it's often best to nail these things down. -- Michaelwagner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20642 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
