From: 	  Ian Whalley 
	Subject: 	Re: [slimp3-users] ID3 tags - which ones does SliMP3 use?
	Date: 	October 21, 2003 8:42:53 AM PDT

[Dean:]
The SLIMP3 software looks at the following tags:
Title, Artist, Album, Genre, Cover Art, Composer, Comment,
Year, Track number, Album number (in a set), and Band.

On a related note...

Recent experimentation with iTunes for Windows has revealed
the 'is part of compilation' checkbox (which seems to result
in the 'TCMP' frame being created in the ID3v2 data). This
appears to be an iTunes extension (it doesn't appear in
<http://www.id3.org/id3v2.4.0-frames.txt>), but it strikes
me that this tag could be useful to the SLIMP3 software.

For example, I'd like an option to hide (from the 'Browse by
artist' view) artists whose tracks only appear in
compilations (that is to say, artists all of whose tracks
have the 'TCMP' frame in the ID3v2 data [I think that's what
iTunes is doing, but I am separated from my collection at
the moment -- I do remember that it didn't seem to be
putting anything into that frame, merely creating it, but
whatever]). Or possibly even have two 'Browse by artist'
views ('Browse by artist' and 'Browse by all artists' or
somesuch thing).

I've seen related topics come up on this list before, and
I've been trying to think of heuristics that one could use
to achieve the same result. (My 'Browse by artist' view is
cluttered with artists whose work only appears a couple of
times in the middle of soundtrack albums [for example], and
this isn't always what I want). However, given that iTunes
has an explicit tag for precisely this, it seems that
something better could now be done without the dubious
guesswork.

What say you?

Best;

inw

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Ian Whalley                 <first name> @ <last name> . org