Originally Posted by
BrodyBoy
That's a great goal, and I'm a firm believer that there ought to be one standard set of tags (a very extensive set). I'd further add that it'd be great if that set was uniform across all the different codecs.
But it's just not where we are right now....players are still all over the place in which tags they recognize and how they use them. Developers aren't there to experience your frustration the first time you use that new car stereo, or fancy new portable player, or whatever, and realize that it's not reading your carefully groomed tags properly, sending you back to mp3tag to add or edit once again. I got really tired of that, so I try to pre-empt it with a more "universal" set of tags from the start. Another advantage, I've found, is that I avoid those annoying "translation errors" when I need to convert a batch of files to another format.
If there's ever a single standard, I'm all in, and I'll adjust my tags accordingly. Until then, I just want the music library I've spent so much time building to play everywhere with ease and consistency.