[ID3 Dev] id3 updates re: itunes and frames in the wild

[Ben Bennett]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 08:32:32PM +0100, Paul Taylor wrote:
> Dan O'Neill wrote:
> >Ben Bennett just added some good information to id3.org about iTunes 
> >[1] and frames seen, but not include in the standard. [2]
> >
> >Thanks for the updates Ben!
> >
> >In the interest of getting more complete information about iTunes, can 
> >anyone help with the following question?
> 
> 1. I am aware of the TCMP iTunes only frame, are there others?
>     TCMP - iTunes compliation flag [3]
> 
> In v2.2 its TCP

Interesting.  Added to the wiki.
 
> >3. I'm believe that iTunes will write 2.4 tags
> >   even when writing in 2.3 format (TSOA, TSOT or TSOP)
> >   Can anyone confirm this behavior?
> >
> Yes it does, it also uses contractions of these fields for v2.2. it also 
> has a field for Composer Sort  and a field for Album Artist Sort
> 
> Field                       v23/v24              v22
> 
> Title Sort               TSOT                 TST
> Artist Sort             TSOP                 TSP
> Album Sort           TSOA                 TSA
> Album Artist Sort  TSO2                  TS2
> Composer Sort     TSOC                  TSC

Cool!  Does it actually honor these?  Updated the wiki.


> >[1] http://id3.org/iTunes
> >[2] http://id3.org/Developer_Information
> >[3] http://id3.org/iTunes_Compilation_Flag
> >[4] http://id3.org/iTunes_Normalization_settings
> >

> Are these pages accessible from the wiki without searching, and it got 

Yes, but I added them today... Developer info is off the sidebar, and
from there you can get to the others.


> me thinking are there loads of other pages there as well that I'm not 
> aware of?

Possibly ;-)

http://id3.org/RecentChanges -- Shows what's going on.

			-ben

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