JJZolx;264529 Wrote: > I have a transcoding script that takes Flac fields which don't have > id3v2.3 native counterparts and just throws them into TXXX/whatever > frames. So ARTISTSORT and ALBUMSORT and COMPILATION become TXXX > frames. SlimServer picks them up as though they were freeform fields > in Flac, Ape, Ogg files. The flexibility is very nice. > > It's a lot harder getting Mp3tag set up right if you're tagging both > Flac files and Mp3s using id3v2.4. For most fields, you need to design > actions that examine the file type (or extension) and use either the > Mp3tag field name (knowing exactly what it maps to in either tagging > system) or else use your own. PERFORMERSORTORDER will map to TSOP only > in id3v2.4 tags. In id3v2.3 tags it becomes a TXXX frame. In Flac, it > just remains the literal PERFORMERSORTORDER. So if you're writing > id3v2.4, you'd use PERFORMERSORTORDER (TSOP) on Mp3s, but ARTISTSORT on > Flacs. With id3v2.3, just use ARTISTSORT for both.
I actually believe that Mp3tag now writes TSOP, etc. even in id3v2.3. There was a lengthy discussion about the incompatability with iTunes. Here's the link: http://www.anytag.de/forums/index.php?showtopic=6117&hl=tsop Your script sounds like a nice solution, though. Cheers, David -- studley The Guide is definitive. Reality is often inaccurate. Know my music... know me. http://www.last.fm/user/dstudley http://www.pandora.com/people/studley3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ studley's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6441 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42822 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
