Am 25.08.2012 17:40, schrieb Urs Fleisch: > Kid3 supports lots of different tag formats. All these formats have different > fields, not all fields are present in all formats. Kid3 tries to unify the > common field types between all supported formats, the unified fields are the > "standard" fields from Title to Genre and additional fields from Album Artist > to Website. Besides these unified fields, a lot of other format specific > fields are supported, for ID3v2.3.0 from AENC to WXXX. > > Now there is the problem that not all of the unified fields can be > unambiguously mapped to the fields of all formats. Here we have the Performer > and Arranger fields. For ID3v2.4.0, Arranger is mapped to "TIPL Involved > people list" and Performer is mapped to "TMCL Musician credits list". > > TMCL > The 'Musician credits list' is intended as a mapping between > instruments and the musician that played it. Every odd field is an > instrument and every even is an artist or a comma delimited list of > artists. > > TIPL > The 'Involved people list' is very similar to the musician credits > list, but maps between functions, like producer, and names. > > However, in ID3v2.3.0, there is no such thing as TMCL, only IPLS (Involved > people list), so both musicians and other involved people like the producer > have to use the IPLS field. That's why Kid3 maps both Performer and Arranger > to IPLS, and when the file is read back, there are two IPLS frames which are > displayed as Arranger. > > So this is not a bug in Kid3, only a thing where ID3v2.3.0 is not as > expressive as ID3v2.4.0. You can use ID3v2.4.0 if this is really a problem. >
Do you think that this is something which could be improved or closing as wontfix? -- /* Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards, Patrick Matthäi GNU/Linux Debian Developer Blog: http://www.linux-dev.org/ E-Mail: [email protected] [email protected] */
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