by grommet » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:55 pm
chrisjj wrote:It does not. With "artist a/artist b" in an MP3 Arist field, MediaMonkey (V3.0.3.1148) fails to enter album a on the Artists node and fails to enter artist b on the Artists node. This is a major failure to follow ID3V2.3.
Correct. The current MediaMonkey release does not handle it. Windows Media Player 10/11, and all associated Microsoft media applications -- including the Explorer shell -- do.
If you follow the ID3v2.3 informal standard, which is the de facto tagging standard for MP3, you should obey the "/" as a delimiter if your application supports the concept of multiple discrete names per tag. Remember to put in an explicit workaround for AC/DC, like Microsoft.
As a bonus, for applications that don't support the concept... the user will still see/edit the multiple names with the real "/" between them so you get some interoperability.
As I mentioned in another thread, there are very few people that have implemented this or even bothered with the concept of multiple names. But since MediaMonkey does now handle multiple artists, etc... it should go for full compatibility as an option.
Anyway, ID3v2 is a poor design, but it's what we're stuck with for MP3.
[quote="chrisjj"]It does not. With "artist a/artist b" in an MP3 Arist field, MediaMonkey (V3.0.3.1148) fails to enter album a on the Artists node and fails to enter artist b on the Artists node. This is a major failure to follow ID3V2.3.[/quote]Correct. The current MediaMonkey release does not handle it. Windows Media Player 10/11, and all associated Microsoft media applications -- including the Explorer shell -- do.
If you follow the ID3v2.3 informal standard, which is the de facto tagging standard for MP3, you should obey the "/" as a delimiter if your application supports the concept of multiple discrete names per tag. Remember to put in an explicit workaround for AC/DC, like Microsoft. :D
As a bonus, for applications that don't support the concept... the user will still see/edit the multiple names with the real "/" between them so you get some interoperability.
As I mentioned in another thread, there are very few people that have implemented this or even bothered with the concept of multiple names. But since MediaMonkey does now handle multiple artists, etc... it should go for full compatibility as an option.
Anyway, ID3v2 is a poor design, but it's what we're stuck with for MP3.