[ID3 Dev] escape "/" character

[Daniel Önnerby]

But following the 2.4 standard, you should NULL separate them to be able 
to have multiple artists/genres.. right?

Ben Bennett wrote:
> So... for guest artists I think you want to look at the TPE1 and TPE2
> performer flags.  Granted, that doesn't help with multiple guests.
>
> For instance, I'm intending to write a 2.4 tag like this:
>
>                         TALB Album: Back to Mine
>              TSOA Album sort order: back to mine
>                  TCON Content Type: 40 (AlternRock)
>                  TDRL Release Date: 2003
>                     TFLT File Type: MPG/3
>                         TIT1 Genre: Electronica
>                          TIT2 Song: My Melody
>                     TLEN Length MS: 339853
>                  TSIZ Length Bytes: 7507246
>                TOFN Canonical File: 03 - Eric B. & Rakim - My Melody.mp3
>                TPE1 Performer Name: Eric B. & Rakim
>          TSOP Performer sort order: eric b. & rakim
>             TPE2 Album Artist Name: Tricky
>       TSO2 Album artist sort order: tricky
>                   TPOS Part of Set: 1/1
>                     TPUB Publisher: Back to Mine
>                   TRCK Song Number: 3/16
>       TCMP iTunes Compilation flag: 1
>                  TDTG Tagging Time: 2008-04-08T20:37:44
>                  TXXX Tag Revision: 1
>
> For the album: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3cfrxqyaldte
>
> I write the last two frames so that I can decide if I need to refresh
> a tag later if my source data changes or if I update my tagging
> standard.
>
> I know that TSIZ is not part of 2.4, but I had the data around and it
> is a pain to compute.
>
> 	  	  	   -ben
>
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:28:48AM +0200, Daniel Önnerby wrote:
>   
>> that's what I was afraid of :(
>> Although, AC/DC seem to be the only artist with this problem, so it's not 
>> much of a deal.  I think our benefits of splitting the artists by the "/" 
>> separator is greater since many people seem to have tagged the artists this 
>> way, so they will have to deal with the fact that there will be both AC and 
>> DC artists (or we make this a special case) :)
>> Writing our tags will not be a problem since we will write 2.4 tags.
>>
>> It's strange that there aren't more taggers/players that support multiple 
>> artists and genres. There are several songs out there with guest artists 
>> that you would like to find when listing the artists.
>>
>> Thank you for your reply!
>>
>> Best regards
>> Daniel
>>
>> Ben Bennett wrote:
>>     
>>> Nasty question.
>>>
>>> 2.4 defines a sane way to do multiple artists so if you are writing a
>>> 2.4 tag then there is no problem.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately in 2.3 I don't see any good way to escape it.  So you're
>>> gonna have to map it to something else (perhaps -?, e.g. AC-DC).
>>>
>>> However, I haven't seen much that actually undestands multiple artists
>>> (or multiple anything).
>>>
>>> The 800lb gorilla (iTunes) doesn't do anything for lists.  It treats
>>> any /s as part of the string and does no futher parsing.  I'm not sure
>>> what it does when it encounters a 2.4 list.
>>>
>>> 			-ben
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:40:25PM +0200, Daniel Önnerby wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hi all!
>>>>
>>>> I just subscribed to this list because we're developing musikCube2 where 
>>>> we will support multiple genres and multiple artists.
>>>> We have run into a small problem regarding the "/" separated tags like 
>>>> TPE1 (artists) and is wondering how to escape this character.
>>>> The group we are having some problems with is "AC/DC" that will split 
>>>> into 2 artists.
>>>> So, the question is simple: How do you escape the "/" separator according 
>>>> to the id3v2.x standard?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>> Daniel
>>>>
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