JJZolx;212705 Wrote: > It's more than just a bit tricky. I don't know if any of the different > tagging specs place any requirements on field order. What if your > tagging program decided to neatly store fields in alphabetical order by > field name then value? You could have: > > ARTIST=Bob Smith > ARTIST=Mark Jones > ARTISTSORT=Jones, Mark > ARTISTSORT=Smith, Bob
ID3v2 only allows the use of a single frame per tag (one performer tag and one sort tag). The ordering of values within multi-value tags is not defined by the specification. A brief look at the ogg tag specification (also used for FLAC) implies nothing about ordering and therefore I would assume that you cannot trust the ordering to be preserved. In addition, merging of ID3v1, APE and ID3v2 tags may result in multiple additional fields being obtained. For example, ID3v1 might hold the name 'Chris de Burgh' and the ID3v2 might hold the name 'Chris De Burgh'. These would appear as two distinct, different artists and so be placed in the array. This would cause confusion between any assumed ordering for the TSOP field. A solution to this particular problem is to untick the box that says to use ID3v1 tags. Anyhow, as you say, the above reordering may quite happily be performed by the tag editor, and cause chaos. And the walls will come tumbling down. -- gerph ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36587 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
