multiple genre support: ongoing work? offer of help

Jeff Mitchell kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com
Sun Oct 28 05:08:54 UTC 2007


On Sunday 28 October 2007, Will Robertson wrote:
> On 10/28/07, Seb Ruiz <me at sebruiz.net> wrote:
> > My guess is that it uses a custom metadata field to store multiple genres
>
> I think a few different programs use the standard ID3v2 genre field,
> but have each genre separated by a null byte.
> Labels would only be Amarok database specific though, so it isn't a
> perfect solution.

Well but remember, any solution really needs to work with oggs, flacs, and 
more, not just mp3s.  Which makes any sort of a non-custom solution even 
harder, unless you're willing to try to get the various metadata standards 
changed (and good luck...)

--Jeff



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