[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH][RFC] add a list of generic tag names

Anton Khirnov wyskas
Sat Jan 16 12:52:23 CET 2010


On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:18:43AM -0800, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> 
> album_artist
> 
done
> 
> Humm, I'm not sure about the description of artist.
> Artist is used for the singer usually, and it's not necessarly the
> "author" in the sense that he didn't write the song. It's not that
> easy though I admit.
> 
s/author/creator
> 
> encoded_by
> 
done
> 
> This looks like "year" to me. 4 digits. like TYER in id3v2
> This applies everywhere were the 4 digits are used.
> The most common practice is to put only year, like in all my mp3/m4a
> collection.
> 
I don't really see a point in defining a separate 'year' tag, just using
first 4 bytes of 'date' should be enough (at least for next 8k years ;))
> 
> Finally :)
> encoded_by also
> 
done
> 
> album_artist.
> 
done
> 
> '_' for all 3, to be consistent.
> 
this case is different from album_artist (tag name+modifier vs. just tag name
made of two words), so we shouldn't try to be consistent with it. also
we already use dash for language.

i've also added 'TDRC' (recording time) as a second alias for 'date' to
id3v2, because it seems everyone is using it to store date.

Anton Khirnov
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