Re: Which ID3 tags are used by the server?

MP3 files may contain both V1.x and V2.x
ID3 tags. And they aren't

necessarily in sync, even for basic items such as Artist, Album or

Title. What the rules for which of these fields are used by the

current SliMP3 server in building its music database?

Here's a list of the ones we actually use and cache:

'TITLE', # title

'GENRE', # genre

'TRACKNUM', # tracknumber as an int

'ARTIST', # artist

'ALBUM', # album
name

'COMMENT',
# ID3 comment

'YEAR',
#
year

'SECS',
# total
seconds

'VBR_SCALE', # vbr/cbr

'BITRATE', # bitrate

'TAGSIZE', # size of ID3v2 tag

My predicament: I need, from
time-to-time, to edit these fields,

because I made some kind of error in entering the data. I use
"mpi",

by Doug Bagley for this purpose. MPI, written in PERL (as is the

server), utilizes the MP3::Info module for getting and setting
tags.

However, Info.pm is currently capable of setting only V1.x tags,
not

V2.x; hence things get out of sync! Perhaps someone can recommend
a

different LINUX-based tag editor that I should be using, or some
other

route to a solution.

Sorry, no recommendation here, but maybe somebody else can help
you.

-dean