[ID3 Dev] escape "/" character

[Ben Bennett]

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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