tmauceri;611931 Wrote: > I would like to understand this better. Is it that each song contains > embedded data called a Tag which contains multiple fields. I thought > that each field was a seperate tag and that they were associated with > the CD as a whole.
That's correct, although a 'field' is often called a 'tag' (as in "the ARTIST tag"), so it can sometimes be confusing. I'm not sure if 'field' is a universally accepted term, but many people here use Mp3tag as a tag editor and that's the term used internally by that software. With ID3v2 tags, fields are sometimes referred to as 'frames'. Files can also contain multiple tags. It's common for an Mp3 file, for instance, to have both an ID3v1 tag and an ID3v2 tag (for compatibility reasons), and sometimes even an APEv2 tag. This is less common in other types of files, where most have just one accepted tagging standard. > When my VBA rips a CD it creates 3 extra files besides the flac files. > Two are the album art (cover and folder). The third and I am blanking > on the extension, I thought contained the CD data or contained the > tags. Some ripping software will create a .m3u file, which is a playlist of the tracks on the CD. In its extended form it does contain some metadata, but it's usually minimal and isn't used by Squeezebox Server as far as I know. Some ripping software can create a .cue file (or "CUE sheet") which is a detailed description of the CD layout that references the audio files ripped from the CD. These usually also contain CD metadata. CUE sheets have a couple of uses: One is for burning a CD from ripped files. Another is seen when ripping a whole CD to a single audio file. Then the CUE sheet is used to determine track boundaries. CUE sheets _can_ be used by Squeezebox Server for gathering metadata, but usually only for file formats that don't have a tagging standard, such as WAV. -- JJZolx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83244 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
