Hi Folks, Have recently switched my workflow over to MP3TAG and have recently completed curating my audio library. I'm in the process of revisiting the "Genre/Style" meta-tag in an effort to ensure that it is a simplified as possible and adheres (albeit somewhat) to standardization. I figure I'd …

[image] hgagne: MP3Tag = " [genre]\\[genre] " I would like to clearify that this is MP3tag's representation of a multi-value field (which is not limited to the field GENRE). MP3tag can read, display and write any of the above multi-genre formats of the various target programs - which is usal…

Hi ohrenkino, Agreed; different applications that provide multi-value field support use different methods to inject multi-values of a meta-tag field. Using GENRE as an example; adding two genres separated by double backslash instructs MP3Tag to add HEX codes 0D 0A between each instance of GENRE. …

Interesting; I'm set for ID3v2.3 UTF-16 not UD3v2.3 ISO-8859-1. Just had a look at the Help description and the thread you provided. Seems we're back to the age-old most universal format to use problem. Appreciate the info. :slight_smile: For those curious of how it appears in UTF-16 as written…

This is what it looks like in a hex editor, also for UTF-16: [hex0] I don't see any 0D 0A.

Yep; I'm seeing NULL as 00 in HEX view as well - so all should be good to implement multi-genre/style should I decide. Just had a look to see what options are available in BeyondCompare for the MP3Compare built-in plug-in ... none. I'm going to assume MP3Compare is changing HEX: FF FE or HEX: 00 t…

Genre/Style Meta-Tagging Sources

General Discussion

ohrenkino March 31, 2020, 3:30pm 4

In my version of MP3tag, the hex code 00 is used as field separator (as required by the standard).
Here is a thread that comments on the separator.