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12-21-2010

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Quote:

Originally Posted by radoulov

OK,
I suppose all the code should be re-written.
Could you please provide again the list of mandatory tags for mp3 and flac?

For mp3:

Code:

Album
Artist
Title
Track

For flac:

Code:

ALBUM
ARTIST
DESCRIPTION
TITLE

Are those lists correct?

Yes. Indeed. If there is no id tag in the mp3 all properties except 'Track' are in the output and filled with spaces. The property 'Track' isn't in the output at all.
But if there is an id3 tag, but an empty one, the property field IS in the output and has value the value '0'.

With FLAC it's more clear. Only non-empty properties are in the output.

So for mp3 the check should be like:
If title is empty(=filled with spaces) or contains unknown or track
or if artist is empty(=filled with spaces) or contains unknown
or if album is empty(=filled with spaces) or contains unknown
or if the value of the is '0' or the property track is not available
then report this file

For flac:
If title is not available or contains unknown or track
or if artist is not avaliable or contains unknown
or if album is not available or contains unknown
or if track is not available
then report this file

If no property at all is filled metaflac returns nothing at all.

Hmm.. that's really a lot of checks.

MrZehl

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id3v2

ID3V2(1)                                                           User Command                                                           ID3V2(1)

NAME

       id3v2 -  Adds/Modifies/Removes/Views id3v2 tags, converts/lists id3v1 tags

SYNOPSIS

       id3v2 [ OPTION ] [ FILE ]

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              Display help and exit

       -f, --list-frames
              Display all possible frames for id3v2

       -L, --list-genres
              Lists all id3v1 genres

       -v, --version
              Display version information and exit

       -l, --list
              Lists the tag(s) on the file(s)

       -R, --list-rfc822
              Lists using an rfc822-style format for output

       -d, --delete-v2
              Deletes id3v2 tags

       -s, --delete-v1
              Deletes id3v1 tags

       -D, --delete-all
               Deletes both id3v1 and id3v2 tags

       -C, --convert
               Converts id3v1 tag to id3v2

       -a, --artist ARTIST
              Set the artist information

       -A, --album ALBUM
              Set the album title information

       -t, --song SONG
              Set the song title information

       -c, --comment DESCRIPTION:COMMENT
              Set the comment information

       -g, --genre num
              Set the genre number

       -y, --year num
              Set the year

       -T, --track num/num
              Set the track number/(optional) total tracks

NOTE

       You can set the value for any id3v2 frame by using '--' and then frame id

       For example:

              id3v2 --TIT3 Monkey! file.mp3

       would set the "Subtitle/Description" frame to "Monkey!".

SEE ALSO

       id3tag(1), id3info(1), id3convert(1)

AUTHOR

       id3v2  is  by  myers  <myers_carpenter@users.sourceforge.net> with major portions used from id3lib examples. Manual page written for Debian
       GNU/Linux by Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>.

                                                                     May 2000                                                             ID3V2(1)