aubuti;253694 Wrote: > While using multiple tags instead of a delimiter may be the recommended > approach, it's good to remember that there's at least one place where > the multiple tags approach can break down, and that's if you convert to > mp3, eg, for use on a portable device where space is too limited for > lossless. I use Robin Bowes' flac2mp3.pl script to make an mp3 copy of > my library that I can put on a portable player or my laptop. With > multiple genre tags for a track the script just picks one genre tag; > I'm not sure, but I think it chooses the last one listed. With a > delimiter you get the funny-looking-but-more-informative delimited > multiple tags.
I have my own script that converts Flac to Mp3, and I have it concatenate the genres with a configurable delimiter (I use a /), so I get something like 'Jazz/Vocal' in Mp3 id3v2 tags. It does the same thing for artists, with a comma/space as the delimiter. When writing id3v1 tags there's no choice but to pick one. They're actually stored in the id3v1 tag as a number instead of string. To decide which to use I just have my script write the one with the lowest numeric value, as the id3v1 genres tend to get more narrow and unlikely as the value increases. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41618 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
