[iTunes] Re: 'Key Words' for iTunes Solved ?

[John]

You should be able to find what you're looking for here  
http://www.id3.org .

John
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On Saturday, May 10, 2003, at 08:24 US/Pacific, Tony Wilson wrote:

>
>> using the "Comments" field.  You can then use
>> the "contains" option for the smart playlists, and you'll be able to
>> add an arbitrary number of keywords to each song.
>
> I was more interested in doing a quick column sort to zero in on 
> certain criteria such as just instrumental tracks. I find I mostly use 
> iTunes with a large shuffled selection, just the genre generally, but 
> would like a handy method to narrow that down. I've used the comment 
> field to first list the 'label/album code', for sorting by that, then 
> list the various players & instrument for searches; this is also the 
> info from the cd insert I want if/when I trade-in the original cd. Use 
> the BPM field for key codes and you can do a mass tagging of many 
> albums or artists at once without messing with comments that are 
> unique for every track.
>
> By way of reference, anyone know the size limit on the comment field; 
> do searches choke when the comment fields are large and numerous. I 
> have thought that storing all info you want (that is not already 
> covered by tags) as an XML doc in the comment field would be useful. A 
> mini app that made it easy to write your info [auto-fill feature for 
> the instruments,players, etc] and then wrote the results to the 
> comment field as XML; the same or a different app could search this 
> 'comment-XML' and translate results to html for display in your web 
> browser.
>
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> Tony
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