Philip Meyer;367828 Wrote: > iTunes provides a field labelled as "Part of a compilation", which is > stored as a frame called "TCMP". This is NOT an id3v2.3 tag. What's > even worse is that it's not stored as a proper custom tag (i.e. not a > TXXX frame containing TCMP), but as a frame called TCMP). > > Mp3Tag displays this as "ITUNESCOMPILATION". > > This is potentially why other applications don't see the tag, or > potentially why there may be problems with SqueezeCenter not doing > exactly the same processing as a TXXX COMPILATION tag, because it is > not only a non-standard tag, it breaks the standard. > > I can't remember for sure, but perhaps id3v2.4 allows for a TCMP frame.
cool. the thing is i don't know of any other big app that uses ANY kind of comp tag. maybe they do, but i am unaware of any. Philip Meyer;367828 Wrote: > Yes (although "compatible" is a mute term when iTunes is so wrong to > start with!). I imagine that a lot of taggers will not be able to > read/write TCMP frames, so I prefer to use a custom COMPILATION tag. > Fortunately, Mp3Tag supports TCMP, and SC reads TCMP frames too. right on. yes, i hate itunes myself, but i have people who use it. i want my files to work for them. Philip Meyer;367828 Wrote: > Yes, you can set up a custom column with that field/value. Note that if > you go to the Extended Tags... dialog, you can add a new tag, and the > field list should already include "ITUNESCOMPILATION". it does... but the value is empty. is it just like adding a column? meaning %itunescompilation% should be in the value box? or does it want to know 1 or 0? Philip Meyer;367828 Wrote: > There is no standard tag specifically meaning Live/Not live. There are > potentially other frames that could be chosen to hold that flag, but SC > doesn't read them. > > Fortunately, you can add your own custom tag, and use Erland's > CustomScan plugin to read it into your SC library. You could then use > CustomBrowse to create a new browse menu to display only music > containing that tag. > > I myself use additional GENRE tags. I keep the first genre tag to > represent the true genre of the music, and then also add additional > genre tags (such as Live, Acoustic, Demo, etc) when appropriate. I've > created a Custom Library for my live concerts, based on my Live genre > tag. thats a great idea. i wouldn't want to use more than one Genre tag, but a custom tag like: TXXX LIVE with a 1 for true OR nothing / 0 for false seems like just the thing for me. i'll wait until 8.0 shakes out for that, b/c it seems erlands stuff is going to need a redesign anyway. but in the meantime, how do i setup mp3tag to create from scratch a custom tag in the: TXXX LIVE frame? i could get a headstart tagging the files. also, out of curiosity, if you have multiple GENRE tags, which one would another app use? i'm guessing other apps only see one of the GENRE tags. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.3b - Win XP Pro SP3 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55949 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
