Re: Tagging issues between Itunes and SlimserverDB's

JJZolx;164962 Wrote: 
> Another observation: It isn't easy taking a library in Flac that's
> tagged optimally for SlimServer and transcoding it to MP3 to be used in
> other applications and devices.  Lots of issues with tags.
> 
> I spent part of the weekend working on my script to transcode my Flac
> library to MP3 to be used on my iPod Nano.  The problem is mostly with
> multiple tags.  Say I have a Flac track tagged:
> 
> ARTIST=Anita O'Day
> ARTIST=Gene Krupa
> 
> My choices to tag this in id3v2 for an MP3 are pretty much:
> 
> Anita O'Day & Gene Krupa
> Anita O'Day
> Gene Krupa
> Anita O'Day;Gene Krupa
> 

You can choose to use those names, but none of them are the specified
way that ID3v2 is meant to be used for multiple artists. ID3v2.2 and
ID3v2.3 both specify that the artist can be separated by a '/'
character. ID3v2.4 improves on this and allows you to have multiple
values associated with a single frame without restricting the
characters that may be used, closer to what you're doing by providing
the multiple ARTIST fields in your Vorbis comments in the FLAC files.

See ID3v2.2 specification section 4.2.1 (frame 'TP1'), ID3v2.3
specification section 4.2.1 (frame 'TPE1'), ID3v2.4 specification
section 4.2 (all frames which start with a T with the exception of
TXXX).


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