Bug 171458

Summary:	upgrading tagging system to more comprehensive one
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	Eddie Armstrong <eddie_armstrong>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	tim.bocek
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Eddie Armstrong 2008-09-22 16:41:11 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 3.5.9)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

FLAC and other tags need to be able to catalogue a music collection thoroughly so users can use the information to full effect. I would like to see full use of Xiph's categories plus additional categories, and multi-tags as defined on a web page I put up for this purpose (see 2).
This was mooted on my post to mailing list (1)

1: See: Mailing List Archive thread:
http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/amarok/2008-September/006735.html
2: I added details on this web page for clarity
See;
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ea-bmb/Pages/Proposed%20Tagging%20Fields.html
The web page at (2) shows xiph's and Amaroks current tags for flacs plus proposal for tag list.

Comment 1 Tim Bocek 2008-09-22 16:55:15 UTC

Does anyone who is an ID3 expert know how these can translate into the ID3v2.4 standard?  There are a lot of potential tags in there that Amarok isn't handling.
Ideally, we would be able to find a way to map these tags to the ID3 standard.

Mainly, all my music is in MP3 format and I'd feel jealous if just the FLAC users got fancy new taggers ;)

Comment 2 djmatic8 2008-10-10 03:00:59 UTC

There is the TXXX (user text) frame in ID3, which is similar to Vorbis tags. It can be used (and is used) for this purpose.

As for the mapping, it has to be configurable letting the user define (or at least use the default) tagging scheme.

I must admit although, not many people even use the 'standard' tag fields, or use them in their own meaning, so developers may call this 'a rare needed and obscure feature' =)

Comment 3 djmatic8 2008-10-10 03:12:36 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 4 Myriam Schweingruber 2009-12-09 22:03:56 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 173493 ***