Need application suggestions for ripping to Cowon A3 PVP

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 00:37 +0930, Tim wrote:
> Tim:
> >> If you're into classical music, it's woefully inadequate, though.  
> >> e.g. Artist is a vague term, do you apply it to the composer or the
> >> performer?  There aren't the fields necessary for proper
> >> classification, and the genre tagging's just stupid (a small
> >> predefined list of number genres, with no free-form entry of type).
> 
> Patrick O'Callaghan:
> > Not so. ID3V2 is a lot more flexible, and includes a free-format genre
> > description. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id3
> 
> Maybe the spec says so, but various clients don't work that way.  And
> you can end up with mismatching ID3 *and* ID3v2 data in the file, not to
> mention fields not being available to you.  Plenty a time I've typed in
> a genre, on a client that let me do so, only to find it described as
> something completely different, when I play it elsewhere.

Presumably that's a result of them not supporting an up-to-date
standard. Nothing much to be done about that except to avoid them in
favour of those that do.

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