[mb-users] picard 0.9.0alpha9 released

[Lukáš Lalinský]

On Ut, 2007-05-22 at 10:51 -0700, Shabo Lack wrote:
> Foobar2000 does it. It has a text box that you can
> write "Meta Field = TAG Name" values (like. Album
> Artist = Band is needed to read the Album Artist of
> the mp3 that is tagged by new Picard but not with the
> old Picard). 
> I know it does not say which id3tag or mp4 field it
> is, so still you have to use the Foobar mappings
> (which may mean tags written with Foobar may be
> recognized wrongly with Picard (For example when I
> delete the Band field Picard show Album Artist null,
> even Foobar show Album Artist). But I think
> customizing which id3field is one level above and
> maybe this will be a better support for an
> application. And for gui I think only 4 large text
> boxes is sufficient for a start (each one for one of
> the tag type). (Like "X field = tpe"). And maybe to
> show the multiple fields square brackets may be used
> (like "X field = [tpe]")

Nope, foobar2000k just tricks you. :) The list of tags supported by fb2k
is quite limited:
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:ID3_Tag_Mapping

Compare it to:
http://id3.org/id3v2.4.0-frames

This kind of custom mapping will be never in Picard, because ID3 is a
structured tagging format and assuming that it's just a flat list of
name,value pairs (like fb2k does) is wrong and limits it's usefulness.

And actually, I think Picard is already more customizable from this
point of view, even though it's not visible in the UI. According to
Prodoc, fb2k maps TXXX:ALBUMARTIST to "Album Artist", so if you want to
get that from Picard simply put this to the TaggerScript editor:

$copy(_id3:TXXX:ALBUMARTIST,albumartist)

> Like in case of mine, I love to use Foobar (actually
> really hate some features), but also would like to use
> Picard. So I use mp3tag like a bridge application in
> between (example: when I encode an album to mp4 in
> Foobar and tag it with Picard; Foobar cannot read the
> tags (maybe a bug on Picard or Foobar, dunno) so I
> resave the tags with mp3tag and then Foobar reads
> fine).

Fb2k author invented his own tagging format for MP4 files, and the Nero
encoder adopted it. The format is now deprecated in fb2k and I think it
still prefers the old one, so that might be the problem. But this is
just a guess, I'll check what's actually wrong later.

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