On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 12:37 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 18:55 -0700, Dean S. Messing wrote: > > Is the tag information carried in the file name, or in some metadata > > area w/in the track itself, or as separate files w/in the ripped-to > > directory? > > If you researched ID3 for yourself, you'd find that out. It's data > embedded in the audio file, with a number of commonly understood > relationships (e.g. title="the name of the audio file") as well as > others handled by less applications. Not to mention different versions > of ID data. > > If you're into classical music, it's woefully inadequate, though. > e.g. Artist is a vague term, do you apply it to the composer or the > performer? There aren't the fields necessary for proper classification, > and the genre tagging's just stupid (a small predefined list of number > genres, with no free-form entry of type). Not so. ID3V2 is a lot more flexible, and includes a free-format genre description. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id3 poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
