moin, moin...

I've tried to understand the ID3v240-docs, but as English is
not my mother-tounge, I hope some experts are around here to
answer a few questions I found no solution for.

Some friends of mine and I have started to record and encode
our old vinyl, as we don't want to buy CDs, download mp3s
illegaly or just don't get our old songs on CD.

Now we want to build a database for the mp3s, using id3v240.

A while ago, I tried CDDB/freedb for some of my CDs and got
more than one result. This lead us to the use some other
information to identify a CDs/TTs.

Most of the CDs have a barcode.
Would this be a unique identifier ?
Which ID3-tag should be used ?

Same problem comes with TTs.

Most of them don't have barcodes, but we think, there are
enough details on every TT to identfy it.

The next problem occurs:

TTs have 2 sides.

Which tag should be used for the side ?

In some sets of TTs, each has an own title beside the title
of the album.

Which tag should be used for this information ?

I am aware of TXXX, PRIV and COMM, which could be used to store
all or parts of the infos in question, but it might be the case,
that I've overlooked or misunderstood the proper tag for one or
the other info.

tia....
scholly

Do yourself a favor and use either MPC w/ApeV2 Tags or Ogg Vorbis w/Vorbis comments.

Id3V2 is a horrible and inflexible tagging format... not only will you do much better with the above (ApeV2 has some suggested predefined tags here: http://www.personal.uni-jena.de/~pfk/mpp/s....v8/apekey.html) mentioned formats in regards to tagging, but you'll also be getting better quality (much better in the case of MPC, along with lower bitrates). If you use Ogg Vorbis, I suggest using Garf's GT3 version.

Edit: You can also use ApeV2 tags with MP3, but foobar2000 is the only player that supports this right now.

Edit 2: If you use Ogg Vorbis with Vorbis comments, you might want to use some amount of padding also, since these tags are written to the beginning of the file (Ape are written to the end most of the time). You want the padding in case you decide to update the tags.. the padding prevents you from having to rewrite the entire file if you add more to the tags.

moin, moin...

Thanks for your tips, I'll have a look at MPC/APE and
Ogg/Vorbis comments.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't MP3 the only
of the 3 encodings, that can be used in a wide range
of standalone players ?

In this case I have no option but using MP3/ID3, I fear.

bis denne...
scholly

At the moment, yes.

If hardware compatibility is an absolute necessity, Ogg Vorbis would be a better choice than MPC if you decide to go for the non-MP3 route. AAC actually does have hardware support, and I would recommend using that format except for the fact that there's no great tagging solution available as we speak (though I believe Menno is working on something).

moin, moin...

Dibrom wrote:

> You can also use ApeV2 tags with MP3

Which tool can write APE2 to MP3 ?

bis denne...
scholly