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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
Okay, I'll try ranting.
Why can't metadata tagging be more consistent? I just spent hours trying to do something as simple as putting the total number of tracks in each album, yet it works with some programs and not with others, and also not with some digital audio players. Worse, different audio formats have different tags for the same metadata. As an example, the tag for dates in MP3 files is not the same tag as the one for FLAC files.
Why does this have to be a problem? Just enter the total number of tracks and it should work. I'm at the point I'm going to just give up on the whole things because it seems pointless.
*Rants to the Heavens*: Why should this be so difficult?
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Can't speak for FLAC specifically, but in general, many of these things (particularly in the FOSS realm) started off as someone's pet project to scratch a personal itch, which means they're opinionated. So saying, "Why can't you do it the way MP3 does it?" isn't likely to gain traction because the author might say, "I don't
like the way MP3 does it, that's why I wrote FLAC!"
Broad consensus usually comes later, once the original maintainer gets past his "pet project" phase and the tool starts to get traction.
I looked at the official FLAC spec, but oddly I don't see any mention of the date field in the metadata:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/htm...tf-cellar-flac