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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