[ID3 Dev] Labels And Release Number

[Robot Gunslinger]

I am currently using the genre field for storing label information,  
so I can browse
them within iTunes.

TPUB and TSRC are not really what I meant. The TSRC is an ISO  
standard while catalog numbers
are handled by Labels themselves. Here are some examples.

Ghostly International (Electronic Music) uses GI-xx for Ghostly  
International releases and SPC-XX
(for Spectral Sound) for their more technoid music releases.

http://www.ghostly.com/1.0/ (click on Catalog).

same with Moor Music
http://www.morrmusic.com/ (under releases)

and also heavily put do use by netlabels
http://www.netlabels.org (list of netlabels)

Almost every small label (that is everyone not owned by Sony and Co.)  
is heavily relying on
catalog numbers. Some releases / catalog numbers that are out of  
print are highly valuable
something that is the case with some early Warp Records  
(www.warprecords.co.uk).

Also publishers and labels aren't really the same, with many indie  
labels using publishing / distributing channels
of bigger labels, since they can't afford to do it themselves.

This might all sound very niche like, but it really isn't. Those  
small independent labels represent
the musicians that redefine what music is and highly influence the  
cultural aspect of
music in general and almost every good music publication (print or  
online) are concentrating on
those "good" records.

Again, I really think that this should be added to the ID3  
specifications and I don't think
I am alone here. A lot of people think that this is a feature that is  
clearly missing from the
id3 tag specification.



Am 02.11.2005 um 19:39 schrieb James J. Williams:

> I agree, there should definitely be a standardized Label field, some
> programs (NI Traktor) store a Label field, I'm not sure what the  
> field is
> named in the tag but that would be easy enough to find out, anyhow  
> for now
> I've resorted to storing label information in the album field...  
> It's not
> pretty but it works.
>
> - JW
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robot Gunslinger [mailto:robot.gunslinger at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 8:14 AM
> To: id3v2 at id3.org
> Subject: [ID3 Dev] Labels And Release Number
>
> One thing that always bugged me about id3 is it's inability to provide
> a field for "Label" and "Release Number".
>
> It's especially annoying if you're a fan of electronic or indie
> music, where
> where labels (netlabels or otherwise) still are of importance,
> especially for collectors.
>
> I am not a programmer and I don't know if this feature has already  
> been
> implemented in the latest release, but judging from the most common
> mp3 players, I guess it hasn't.
>
> I am sure this can't be too hard to integrate and would be a very
> useful feature
> for Netlabel releases and adding the possibility to defining the
> Label and the Catalog Number of an id3 tagged music file sure is an
> valid
> addition to the metadata capabilities of the id3 standard, so please
> guys
> just put it in there.
>
>
> cheers
>
>
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