vrobin;242741 Wrote: 
> 
> Tags are so much complicated and differently handled in different
> specifications/programs/listener's brain...

That's indeed something that I soon realized. It's pretty amazing
because I can't think of anything that could/should be more simple than
just adding some name-value pairs to a binary wrapper...
The joy of standardization, not! ;p

There's still plenty of things that I don't understand:
* in MP3Tag I never see any of those 4-letter tags. It just looks like
I can write/define whatever tag I want.
* even though in MP3Tag I use ID3v2.3 exclusively, I still can add
ARTISTSORT which does work with SlimServer, even though it seems like
only v2.4 has support for ARTISTSORT (TSOP)
* the same remark for PERFORMERSORTORDER which makes sorting work in
iTunes/iPod.
* I still can't find any official reference to ALBUMARTIST although the
forum is full of discussions about it. I also think that that is where I
got the knowledge about that tag from.

In the meantime I did the WMP/iTunes reverse engineering trick and in
fact they do seem to use the same tags mostly : ARTIST, ALBUM, TITLE,
BAND (for album artist), COMPOSER, etc...
E.g. for track number, WMP just takes the number, while iTunes allows
addition of the total number of tracks (e.g. 3/11).
Also, WMP doesn't seem to provide any support for sorting, while iTunes
uses PERFORMERSORTORDER, ALBUMSORTORDER, etc...
The only thing I still have to figure out is which of these tags SS is
also using or whether I need to add extra ones (e.g. BAND vs
ALBUMARTIST).


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