Metatags
pMusic reads meta-information from many different file types, and adds the information to the DB for later usage.
You can edit these meta-tags with 2 different tools inside pMusic:
The Trackinfo dialog offers a simple way to read and edit the tags embedded with the file.
If file misses tag(s), pMusic will search for track info at Musicbrainz.org.
The Masstagger found in the Tools menu offers option to tag several files in one operation.
You can import the entire playqueue or sourcelist to the tagger, but note that right-clicking on a file(s) in the main gui gives you the option to send this/these to the masstagger.
Technically
pMusic writes tags defined in the id3 protocol version 2.3. BUT, it stays close to version 1.1 of this standard.
The benefits of lending towards id3v1 compared to id3v2 are:
- that many file formats (ie. aac, ape, wma...) supports the same tags (tag-names) as used in id3v1, so the tagging-tool in pMusic can be straightforward. Including extra tags from the id3 version 2 protocol would heavily complicate both code and gui.
- that ffmpeg uses the same metadata code for these basic tags for different file-types, and it makes my tagging-code simple as well.
While pMusic reads id3 ver 1.1, it does not follow version 1.1 strictly when in comes to the writing the genre tag. pMusic writes the genre tag as a text-sting rather than a number (as in id3v1). This because text-string is common for other file-formats. Id3 verison 2 supports strings in the genre tag (as well as numbers).
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