Acessing tags programatically

[chileboy]

I am using MediaTomb as my UPnP server, and it allows customization of the container sorting - e.g., Genre -> Artist -> Album, etc. - though Javascript. I want to extract the "Album Artist" tag, but internally, I don't know what frame in the id3v2 spec it is being written to - for instance, TOAL is defined in the spec as Album name, TOFN is the filename, etc. I am thinking that the Artist and Album Artist are written to TPE1 or TPE2.

Is this documented somewhere?

These are all .flac files I ripped myself with r13.

Hope my question makes sense - thanks.

- Mark

[Spoon]

Re: Accessing tags programatically

TPE2 for album artist.

[chileboy]

Re: Accessing tags programatically

Thanks Spoon!

- Mark

[chileboy]

Re: Accessing tags programatically

TPE2 for album artist.

Spoon, need to ask a follow-up - is that valid for .flacs, as well as MP3s? The TPE2 frame returns the correct info for MP3s, but not flac.

Thanks,

- Mark

[LtData]

Re: Accessing tags programatically

Are your FLAC files using ID3v2 tags or Vorbis Comments? Check dBpoweramp Configuration, since you ripped the files via dMC.

[chileboy]

Re: Accessing tags programatically

Are your FLAC files using ID3v2 tags or Vorbis Comments? Check dBpoweramp Configuration, since you ripped the files via dMC.

Hmm, it says Tag Creation = Vorbis Comments, ID3V2 Version = v2.3, Vorbis Comment Mapping #7 = Album Artist to AlbumArtist (if that last matters).

[chileboy]

Re: Accessing tags programatically

So, in that case, what would the frame be? I didn't realize this option existed.

More to the point, what are the advantages or disadvantages of each? When I changed a couple of .flac to ID3v2 tags, my UPnP server recognized the tags, and I was able to sort my containers properly. More surprisingly, it fed all tags to my player, which it didn't before - but, unfortunately, my player wouldn't actually play them. So it broke the .flac playback compatibility.

Thanks.

- Mark

[Spoon]

Re: Accessing tags programatically

Flac really should be used with Vorbis Comments (AlbumArtist - no space: seems to be the standard).