http://blog.forret.com/2005/03/itunes-and-id3-tags/ and I mean it Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:45:03 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.forret.com/2005/03/itunes-and-id3-tags/comment-page-1/#comment-6258 Nanbakat Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:17:57 +0000 http://peter.smoothouse.com/2005/03/11/itunes-and-id3-tags/#comment-6258 Actually there is Artist/Song info available on CDs. It's called "CD-Text". It writes the information in the TOC (Table of Contents) of the CD. However, you need a CD-reader that can read that information, and most players can't read it. Actually there is Artist/Song info available on CDs. It’s called “CD-Text”. It writes the information in the TOC (Table of Contents) of the CD. However, you need a CD-reader that can read that information, and most players can’t read it.

]]> http://blog.forret.com/2005/03/itunes-and-id3-tags/comment-page-1/#comment-2125 blog.forret.com | Invent, don’t inhibit Sat, 27 May 2006 00:40:01 +0000 http://peter.smoothouse.com/2005/03/11/itunes-and-id3-tags/#comment-2125 [...] One of the big advantages of MP3? It is a format that contains its own metadata: you can store Title, Artist, Genre, … in the ID3 tags. Where does that data come from? In most cases from online databases like Gracenote (formerly CDDB), MusicBrainz and FreeDB. External databases, because that info is not on the CD. Now, isn’t is silly that in 20 years of CD product development no one has come up with a way to specify the album title and songs on the CD itself? This has me baffled. There’s plenty of empty space on an average music CD and the extra data is rarely bigger than 1KB. All you would need is a small TXT file that contains the titles, but is ignored by players that cannot interpret it. This is not only good for ripping music (something the music industry doesn’t like too much) but for any CD playing device. It’s silly that CDs give you impeccable digital sound but you still have to look up the titles of the album and songs in the CD notes. [...] [...] One of the big advantages of MP3? It is a format that contains its own metadata: you can store Title, Artist, Genre, … in the ID3 tags. Where does that data come from? In most cases from online databases like Gracenote (formerly CDDB), MusicBrainz and FreeDB. External databases, because that info is not on the CD. Now, isn’t is silly that in 20 years of CD product development no one has come up with a way to specify the album title and songs on the CD itself? This has me baffled. There’s plenty of empty space on an average music CD and the extra data is rarely bigger than 1KB. All you would need is a small TXT file that contains the titles, but is ignored by players that cannot interpret it. This is not only good for ripping music (something the music industry doesn’t like too much) but for any CD playing device. It’s silly that CDs give you impeccable digital sound but you still have to look up the titles of the album and songs in the CD notes. [...]

]]> http://blog.forret.com/2005/03/itunes-and-id3-tags/comment-page-1/#comment-489 Demonstapler Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:13:12 +0000 http://peter.smoothouse.com/2005/03/11/itunes-and-id3-tags/#comment-489 cheer's for the info on MP-40 i was wondering why my ID3Tags werent working they way they used to before iTunes cheer’s for the info on MP-40 i was wondering why my ID3Tags werent working they way they used to before iTunes

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