>if someone wanted to remove the album tag, and they do it from only v2 >tags, thats not only hard to do, but their deliberate fault. the other >guy in this thread has already said he plans to delete v1 tags so what >the beef? > I'm not going to bother repeating myself. Read previous posts.
>in most mainstream and even non-mainstream apps, if you delete the >album info, the app will delete it from both tags. thats not just >common, its almost universal. > It doesn't always work like that. There was even a case recently where someone had multiple id3v2 tags, and he couldn't get an editor to strip them out. You are also thinking only id3v1 and v2. There are other tag types that can be stored in the files. eg. I could have id3 tags in FLAC files, and a FLAC editor may not even show that they exist. What order of precidence would there be for every combination of tag types? >better to have that happen then to have music totally missing from view. > It won't be totally missing. I often have an ARTIST tag with no ALBUM tag. That doesn't mean it's not visible, it just appears somewhere else. But if someone was expecting music to be visible somewhere in their library but can't find it, they can navigate to it using Browse Music Folder, to navigate the source files. From there, they can see the tags present in the file to work out the problem. i.e. I think the Show Tags new feature would be useful and should be available from Browse Music Folder too. Although I'm not sure I would always trust it - non-standard tag blocks or problems in files are often ignored by library functions - i.e. they can only report the things they know to look for. I'd use a proper tag editor to view the file and make amendment. Watch out for people in the future saying "well, now I can see the tags in a file, why can't the feature be extended to edit these tags within the app. >besides, maybe andy has accounted for this? i think v1 only gets used >if v2 is blank. these are multiple comments from multiple tag >standards, not multiple comments within a tag standard. > Andy was I believe saying that where a tag supports multiple values, it will keep a list of all of the values across all tag formats that it reads. eg. if id3v1 has COMMENT=ABC and id3v2 has COMMENT=DEF, COMMENT=GHI, then you would have ABC+DEF+GHI comments. id3v1 may define an artist, perhaps with a delimeter within it to split multiple artists (I don't think id3v1 supports multiple tag values). Will id3v2 override the artist in v1, or be in addition to it, if the artists are different? >i'd guess you don't p2p a lot. i don't as much as i used to but i >still do. i get many, MANY files that don't have any tags, have v1 >only, have weird butchered tags, etc... it happens a lot. > Then fix them, rather than expect software to work it out/guess. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
