Each file (track) contains a space for metadata, which includes multiple tags. ALBUM is a tag. ARTIST is a tag. TITLE is a tag. YEAR is a tag. DISCNUMBER is a tag (useful for multi-disc sets). And so on. Different types of files (eg, FLAC, MP3) have different standards for tagging. Or you could think of them the way garym described them, as being different fields within a singular tag -- there's a semantic difference but functionally it's the same thing.
When you rip a CD with your VBA it writes the tags in the FLAC files (or MP3 files if that's what you're using). I don't know what the third file is that VBA's ripper creates, but maybe it's a playlist of the album -- if it has a .m3u extension then that's what it is. You may find these links useful. They don't give the basic explanation you are looking for, so maybe they'll make more sense later. http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Beginners_Guide_To_Tagging http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3 -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83244 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
