On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 00:37 +0930, Tim wrote: > Tim: > >> 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). > > Patrick O'Callaghan: > > Not so. ID3V2 is a lot more flexible, and includes a free-format genre > > description. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id3 > > Maybe the spec says so, but various clients don't work that way. And > you can end up with mismatching ID3 *and* ID3v2 data in the file, not to > mention fields not being available to you. Plenty a time I've typed in > a genre, on a client that let me do so, only to find it described as > something completely different, when I play it elsewhere. Presumably that's a result of them not supporting an up-to-date standard. Nothing much to be done about that except to avoid them in favour of those that do. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
