JJZolx;166831 Wrote: > I use whatever I like in (Flac) tags, therefore "AC/DC". This is an > illegal character in folder names, so I do a standard substitution of a > dash within the folder name, so the folder is named "AC-DC". Same thing > with colons. Illinois Jacquet's "Flying Home: The Best of the Verve > Years" gets tagged exactly like that, while the folder is named "Flying > Home- The Best of the Verve Years". > > For id3v2.3 tags, however, a "/" (as gerph may point out) is the > official field separator, so some applications that adhere to the > so-called id3v2.3 spec may treat "AC/DC" as two artists - "AC" and > "DC". This could explain why it isn't entered in the FreeDB database > as such.
(laugh) I would call it a spec, not a so-called spec, but anyhow... The "/" problem is just one reason why ID3v2.4 is a far better tagging standard - but that's not the point of the thread. Obviously Vorbis doesn't have that problem, so FLAC and Ogg files will be able to be filed properly.. The other alternative is to use a unicode encoding for your text and find a glyph that looks like a "/". Might make searching on it a little tricky though. There may be another reason for the freedb thing. In CDDB there isn't any such thing as an artist; there's only an album title. The common convention was to use "<artist name> / <album name>". So any program which stopped the artist name at a "/" will end up with the artist name of "AC". I don't know if that's the reason or not, but it's probable. I do a very similar thing to jjzolx with filenames which can't be represented properly in filenames; either omit the offending character or use a replacement. -- gerph ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31229 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
