Yup. Same idea I suggested on this list back in Jun 07, see the ensuing discussion on<br><a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.id3v2/437">http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.id3v2/437</a><br><a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.id3v2/442">http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.id3v2/442</a><br>
<br>Not sure what to suggest, other than writing up a spec, releasing some patched code to the id3 library and trying to get people to start using it. Seems like the main spec is pretty much frozen, nobody's developing it, and any significant changes are application-specific using PRIV frames.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Ahmed Sobhi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:humanzz@hotmail.com">humanzz@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Calibri">Hello,</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">I'm a software developer but I'm not at all experienced
with id3 tagging system from a developer's perspective.</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">I'm facing a problem as a user and I just wanted to
share that problem and propose how I want it to be solved.</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">I'm Egyptian so part of my mp3s collection is for
Egyptian and Arab artists. The problem is with the songs, albums titles and
artists names. I'd like to see them in Arabic.</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">I know that this is possible with unicode and for sure
that works quite well for me.</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Calibri">I'm talking about storing the names in multiple
languages, like having an artist's name in arabic and english.</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">For example, I have an artist called " <b><font color="#000080" size="3">أم كلثوم</font></b></font>" and in English she is
called Um Kalthoum.</div>
<div><font face="Calibri">I'd like to be able to search in my music library
with either names.</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">A also believe that each can be used in a proper
context</font></div>
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<li><font face="Calibri">The original artist's language (in my case arabic)
because it's only logical to do so</font>
</li><li><font face="Calibri">English as a current universal standard</font></li></ol>
<div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Calibri">I think it'd be a great feature for those whose first
language is not English.</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Calibri">So what I'm suggesting is to allow some fields to be
stored with different language versions.</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">So there will Artist (english): Um Kalthoum and Artist
(arabic): <b><font color="#000080">أم كلثوم</font></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">The same can co for album and title and any other fields
that can expose such behavior.</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Calibri">What do you think?</font> </div>
<div><font face="Calibri">Regards,</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">Ahmed Sobhi</font></div></div>
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