ID3v2 field TRCK and setTrack (resend)

Allan Sandfeld Jensen kde at carewolf.com
Sun Sep 5 00:50:30 CEST 2004


On Tuesday 17 August 2004 03:05, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 August 2004 0:25, Tor Hveem wrote:
> > List,
> >
> > I was reading the id3v2 spec and came across this:
> >
> >   TRCK
> >    The 'Track number/Position in set' frame is a numeric string
> >    containing the order number of the audio-file on its original
> >    recording. This MAY be extended with a "/" character and a numeric
> >    string containing the total number of tracks/elements on the original
> >    recording. E.g. "4/9".
> >
> > That is something I wanted to use in my application, but when I consult
> > id3v2tag.h I see this:
> >       virtual void setTrack(uint i);
> >
> > This must be a bug, I think. But alas, I'm not fluent in c++ so
> > unfortunately I cannot produce a patch.
>
> This is intentional.  The "generic" tag API only supports the features that
> are supported by all tag types.  See the TextIdentificationFrame
> documentation for info on how to set the frame text.
>
Which formats does not support total-number-of-tracks?

AFAIK know ID3v1&2, OggVorbis and APE does ;-)

`Allan



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