John Stimson Wrote: > That's not the same as "artist", I hope. The ID3v2 spec indicates that > TPE1 would correspond to the "ARTIST" tag when used for pop music.
Yes, TPE1 = 'ARTIST' and TPE2 = 'BAND'. It's actually weirder in pop music than in classical... But it shows up in the web page as 'Band:' so that's why I used it. (The id3v2 spec says its for 'band/orchestra/acompaniment') Band sounds odd unless it's John Philip Sousa, though. I'd think for a lot of classicial music the TPE1 would be empty (no prominant soloist), though certainly not all. > > I suppose that I could make my own workaround by writing a script to > copy the TPE1 data into TPE2-4 when those tags aren't already filled. > Ah, so you could have, in one list: . The B-52's . JS Bach . Adrian Belew ? Did you try the settings on the server for tossing Composer, Band/Orchestra, and Conductor into the general 'contributor' table? (TPE4 isn't used right now, though I only have a few cases where that would be nice.) I see things like the above when I browse artists. (Actually, I don't have the B52's and it seems I still have to fix a lot of sort-order tags... And I have 4 CD's that showed up in the mail today to rip and tag... I'll never catch up especially since I keep getting more and more anal with tags and even have snuck USLT tags into a few tracks.) It's nice in some ways, but, then: 716 albums with 7310 songs by 566 artists. Those 566 artists gets annoying sometimes especially since I have a bunch of Various Artists albums and even a bunch of tracks with more than one artist. > > But...that brings up another thing. Isn't TIT2 the "song title"? The > ID3v4 spec says that TIT1 is the "larger category of sounds". Ah, yeah that was my typo. TIT1 is so vague I have no clue why that's even in the spec.... I pretend it doesn't exist, so I decremented the title fields. Slimserver doesn't do anything with it, which is fine by me. I don't see any use for it that Genre doesn't already do... 'Weather - Hurricane'? Riiight. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=12914 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
