Converting from the simple, flexible, and logical tagging system used with flac files to the completely ill-conceived id3 tagging standard is definitely a challengs. IMO, it depends a lot on the target use for the mp3s. For myself, where I just use the mp3s in my iPod, it's not terribly critical.
For contributing artists in Flac files I use multiple ARTIST tags, usually with an ALBUMARTIST tag. ALBUM=Genius Loves Company COMPILATION=0 ARTIST=Ray Charles ARTIST=Van Morrison ALBUMARTIST=Ray Charles When converting that to id3v2 I concatenate the fields using a separator and use TPE2 for the ALBUMARTIST. TPE1=Ray Charles, Van Morrison TPE2=Ray Charles The GENRE field is another that has to be dealt with when converting from flac to mp3. I also use multiple GENRE tags in Flac files. GENRE=Latin GENRE=Jazz GENRE=Vocal Basically, I've found two ways to deal with this. If using id3v1 tags you can ony use the predefined 148 genres. Deciding which of the genres to select when there are multiple genres defined is somewhat arbitrary. My conversion script selects the lowest numeric value among them - in the above example, it would be Jazz. Or, if you're using id3v2 tags, you can contatenate the genres with a separator. Since I only tag my converted mp3s with id3v2.3 tags, this is what I do. TCON=Latin/Jazz/Vocal Classical... no good ideas. I've yet to see anything that works well in SlimServer. This is more a failing of SlimServer than anything else. I know a number of audiophiles that have dumped the Squeezebox altogether because of SlimServer's classical music limitations. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33823 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
