One handy thing that I recently discovered for mp3's is that SlimServer will see id3v2 TXXX (user defined) tags in mp3 files in _exactly_ the manner it sees freeform tags in flac or ape files.
If you use Mp3tag you can add _exactly_the_same_ tags to both flac's and mp3's and SlimServer will handle it all quite nicely. What happens is that when Mp3tag doesn't recognize the tag as a valid id3v2.3 or id3v2.4 (whichever you've specified in the options) then it creates TXXX frames with the literal name/value pair. SlimServer reads these and treats them exactly like it does for flac files. No doubt other tagging software can create these TXXX frames as well. Very handy. So I now tag my mp3s with the same tags as flac files, which makes writing Mp3tag actions much more straightforward. ALBUMARTIST= ALBUMSORT= ARISTSTORT= COMPILATION= This is particularly useful if you use id3v2.3 tags (which I do, for mp3 player device compatibility), since there's no ALBUMSORT/TSOA or ARTISTSORT/TSOP defined for id3v2.3. If you use id3v2.4 tags you could just use the native TSOA/TSOP frames from ARTISTSORT and ALBUMSORT, but for a couple of situations, the TXXX tags may be the _only_ way to do some things: Add an ALBUMARTIST tag (which isn't exactly the same as BAND/TPE2) on an mp3 for use in SlimServer. Set a COMPILATION=0 override on an album that would you don't want recognized as a compilation by SlimServer. Mp3tag currently doesn't write the ITUNESCOMPILATION (TCMP) frame if you set a value of 0 - like iTunes, it only includes the tag if it's value is 1/TRUE/asserted. Very handy. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32215 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
