Re: Want new MP3 tag genre

dean blackketter <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:46:08 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.music.equipment.slimp3.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Glad to hear!


On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 08:39  AM, Andy Foulke wrote:

> I think I figured it out.  I tried the command-line utility id3v2
> (http://id3v2.sourceforge.net/) and discovered that, indeed, easytag  
> was
> writing my unique genre fields, but was including an integer in  
> parens.  Ex:
> (255) Christmas
> This seems OK according to what I've seen in the id3v2 spec
> (http://www.id3.org/id3v2.3.0.html#TCON), but the SLIMP3 was always
> showing these as 'OTHER' genres.  Just for grins, I used the id3v2 CLI
> to force a plain old 'Christmas' tag without the '(255)', like so:
> id3v2 --TCON Christmas file.mp3
> and the genre showed up on the SLIMP3.
>
> I think from here my problems are solved.
>
> Thanks again,
> -Andy
>
> Rob Funk wrote:
>
>> Andy Foulke wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Thanks for the great replies, everybody.  I think I'll check out some
>>> ID3v2 editors (although I'm surprised I didn't have success with  
>>> EasyTAG
>>> (http://easytag.sourceforge.net/), a GTK+ utility.  It looks like
>>> there's a more recent version that what I tried last time.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I just loaded up EasyTag 0.23.  There is a switch in the preferences
>> for ID3v2 tags, which must be turned on for you to define your own
>> genres.
>>
>>
>>
>
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