John Stimson wrote: > 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,
Only in the sense that the ideas of putting tag data in the file along with the PCM bits is the same. The format and meaning and descriptions are all different. At least FLAC has a chance of doing Classical Music properly. The ID3 v1 spec is hopeless. Actually, all ID3 tagging is hopeless. There is no real standard, no peer review. > 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. Of course, this is true with any tagging scheme. > Can you make up > your own ID3v2 identifiers, like you can with FLAC? Definitely can do so in later ID3 Versions, I think there are as many as ID3v4 now, The same problem is there. You can put the tags in, but will any application software pay attention? Since most of the people who write software for iPods and Winamp and similar stuff are into rock, emo, punk, jungle, etc. than romantic/baroque/etc. the support starts with what the young folks like. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
