ceejay Wrote: > The first thing I'd say is that a discussion on tagging is only a small > part of the story: much more important (and you have touched on it) is > what you can do with the tags once you've got them.Absolutely. My real > interests lie in having shuffle work better for multi-part works (classical or not) and improving the browsing interface.
> My second point is to wonder about your focus on ID3 tags... My exploration > of the ID3 tag specs was an attempt to understand what tags were out there and how they were supposed to be used. I thought that maybe the FLAC/Vorbis tags were derived from ID3. I guess I'll have to study those as well, since I'm using FLAC and not MP3. I wondered why my FLAC tag identifiers did not match the ID3 identifiers. I thought maybe they were ID3v1 identifiers. > thats fine for MP3 files, but FLAC users will be using Vorbis tags, APE > different again... this was actually one of the most difficult parts > of working out the enhancement requests, and we weren't able to work > out a full set of answers. Every tagging scheme is different, with no > simple mapping from one to another.Well, that is frustrating. FLAC seems to > support freeform tags, so I could just make up a field name and use it. For instance, if there's no FLAC tag that corresponds to the title of a multi-track piece of music, I could just tag the tracks with "OPUS=Symphony No. 9". I presume that slimserver could make use of the tag if the developers wanted to. > As a minimum I'd like to see PERFORMER added (I did manage to work out a > set of patches to do this) - but NB there isn't a good mapping for this > in ID3: if you use TPE1 you've just used what other players are going > to interpret as ARTIST, which will cause heap big confusion.I'm not too > concerned with what my other players come up with for ARTIST -- my iAudio and my car player are loaded with a random selection of music and are never used for browsing. But I suppose we want to make this work for as many people as possible, so maybe the ID3 people could be convinced that they need a separate PERFORMER field from TPE1. They sort of do, with the field for "musician credit list". Can you make up your own ID3v2 identifiers, like you can with FLAC? -- John Stimson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Stimson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=218 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=12914 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
