CODEWITHSUNDEEP
audiometadatamp3avaudioplayerid3
NaturalBornCamper
NaturalBornCamper

Reputation: 3866

Audio file format with metadata supporting tagging?

I would like to create a media player reading/writing all music metadata directly from the files. The MP3 format's id3 metadata already has most of the info like artist, song title, album name, but if you want to tag music with custom tags like "atmospheric", "feel-good-music", "road-trip", you need an external database that will attribute tags to filenames.

Is there a music format with reasonable size (not PCM WAV for example) that incorporates metadata including multiple tags? The word "tag" is often used for the ID3 Tag, making it difficult to find information on Google about actual tagging, and I only end up with MP3 ID3 pages.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1593

Answers (3)

David Brioso
David Brioso

Reputation: 1

Beatunes has columns for tagging mood, color, instrumentation, danceability and more.

https://www.beatunes.com/en/index.html#head

Upvotes: -2

fhe
fhe

Reputation: 6187

You can use MP3 with ID3v2 which has — besides the standard fields you've already mentioned — support for TXXX frames. These frames are a textual mapping between keys and values which allow for arbitrary values stored in the files.

From the ID3v2 specification

4.2.6. User defined text information frame

This frame is intended for one-string text information concerning the audio file in a similar way to the other "T"-frames. The frame body consists of a description of the string, represented as a terminated string, followed by the actual string. There may be more than one "TXXX" frame in each tag, but only one with the same description.

<Header for 'User defined text information frame', ID: "TXXX">
Text encoding     $xx
Description       <text string according to encoding> $00 (00)
Value             <text string according to encoding>

In your example, a valid TXXX frame would use, e.g., STYLE as description and atmospheric as actual value. If you're on Windows, you can try the Windows player foobar2000 and the tag editor Mp3tag (full disclosure: I'm the developer of Mp3tag).

Upvotes: 1

Brad
Brad

Reputation: 163292

Matroska supports most anything. It has a well-defined set of tags and is also extensible for you to add your own if needed.

https://www.matroska.org/technical/specs/tagging/index.html

It also supports pretty much any codec you throw at it.

Upvotes: 0

Related Questions