Need application suggestions for ripping to Cowon A3 PVP

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri Aug 15 13:56:22 UTC 2008


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





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