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| Additional standards | == Additional standards == ==== ID3 Chapter Frame Addendum ==== ID3 Chapter (CHAP) and Table of Contents (CTOC) frames were developed in response to the growth in audio files containing more than one distinct audio program. Podcasts are an example of a single audio file which may contain multiple tracks, stories or other distinct audio entries. The addition of the CHAP and CTOC frames to an ID3 tag will provide compatible players with index information into the audio file. |
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| ID3 Chapter and Table of Contents ID3 Chapter (CHAP) and Table of Contents (CTOC) Frames were developed in response to the growth in audio files containing more than one distinct audio program. Podcasts are an example of a single audio file which may contain multiple tracks, stories or other distinct audio entries. The addition of the CHAP and CTOC frames to an ID3 tag will provide compatible players with index information into the audio file. | Version 1.0 of the Chapter Frame Addendum was released on December 2, 2005. CTOC & CHAP frames are compatible with ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags. |
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| Version 1.0 of the standard was released on December 2, 2005. CTOC & CHAP Frames are compatible with ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags. | [:id3v2-chapters-1.0:ID3v2 Chapter Frame Addendum v1.0] |
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| ID3v2 Chapter Frame Addendum v1.0 - HTML document ID3v2 Chapter Frame Addendum v1.0 - Plain text document | ==== ID3 Accessibility Addendum ==== The ID3 Accessibility Addendum makes ID3 metadata accessible to the visually impaired via a new Audiotext (ATXT) frame type. The addition of ATXT frames to an ID3 tag will allow compatible players to provide an audible description of the ID3 metadata. |
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| ID3 work in progress Join the ID3v2 mailing list to discuss these proposed changes and/or extensions to ID3 tags. | Version 1.0 of the Accessibility Addendum was released on November 20, 2006. ATXT frames are compatible with ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags. |
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| Accessibility describes an extension which makes ID3v2 metadata accessible to the visually impaired via a new frame type. Accessibility version 1.0, draft 3 Accessibility version 1.0 | [:id3v2-accessibility-1.0:ID3v2 Accessibility Addendum v1.0] |
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| Related standards ISO 639-2 - Language codes ISO 4217 - Currency codes ISO 3901 - International Standard Recording Code Unicode - The Unicode Consortium (http://www.unicode.org/) PNG - The PNG Home Page (http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/) zlib - The zlib Home Page (http://www.gzip.org/zlib/) | == Unofficial Frames Seen in the Wild == These are frames that are not in the specs that programs are writing: |
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| Example tags A comprehensive test suite for all versions of ID3 tags are currently under development. The test suite includes both conforming tags and non-conforming tags so that both standards coformance and software robustness can be tested. Part of these will be released as example tags while the rest will be sold to cover development and running expenses. If you are interested, contact Martin Nilsson. | * COMM w. desc="iTunNORM": ["iTunes Normalization settings"] * RGAD: ["Replay Gain Adjustment"] * TCMP: ["iTunes Compilation Flag"] * TSO2: ["iTunes"] uses this for Album Artist sort order * TSOC: ["iTunes"] uses this for Composer sort order * XRVA: ["Experimental RVA2"] |
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| While waiting for the ID3v2 test suite, feel free to try the ID3v1/ID3v1.1 test suite. | == ID3 work in progress == Join the ID3v2 [:MailingList:mailing list] to discuss proposed changes and/or extensions to ID3 tags. |
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| ID3v2 logos The ID3v2 logo is copyright © 1998 Martin Nilsson. You may freely use the ID3v2 logo on pages containing ID3v2 information and in programs supporting the ID3v2 standard. id3v2.png - The original logo (2.6 kB, 156 x 149) attilas_id3logo.jpg - A more colourful logo by Attila Sandor Fiko (3.6 kB, 132 x 132) 3d-logo.gif - A rendered rotating logo by Chris Nunn (44.7 kB, 132 x 132) id3v2.ico - windows icon file by Chuck Zenkus (8.2 kB, 32 x 32 x 16/256, 48 x 48 x 16/256) id3v2.eps - vectorized version by Magnus Hoff (38.1 kB) id3v2.emf - vectorized version by Magnus Hoff (1.4 kB) | 2007-02-03 [:Jud: Jud White] released his first Alpha version of [http://www.idsharp.com IdSharp], a .NET 2.0 tagging library that supports reading and writing 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 tags and converting between the formats. There's also preliminary COM interop support which has been tested with VB6 and VC++6. You can find the code at http://sourceforge.net/projects/idsharp/ and the home page at http://www.idsharp.com. == Related standards == ["ISO 639-2"] - Language codes [[BR]] ["ISO 4217"] - Currency codes [[BR]] ["ISO 3901"] - International Standard Recording Code [[BR]] Unicode - The Unicode Consortium (http://www.unicode.org/) [[BR]] PNG - The PNG Home Page (http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/) [[BR]] zlib - The zlib Home Page (http://www.gzip.org/zlib/) == Example tags == A comprehensive test suite for all versions of ID3 tags are currently under development. The test suite includes both conforming tags and non-conforming tags so that both standards coformance and software robustness can be tested. Part of these will be released as example tags while the rest will be sold to cover development and running expenses. If you are interested, contact Martin Nilsson. While waiting for the ID3v2 test suite, feel free to try the [attachment:id3v1_test_suite.tar.gz ID3v1/ID3v1.1 test suite.] == ID3v2 logos == The ID3v2 logo is copyright © 1998 Martin Nilsson. You may freely use the ID3v2 logo on pages containing ID3v2 information and in programs supporting the ID3v2 standard. attachment:id3v2.png - The original logo (2.6 kB, 156 x 149) [[BR]] attachment:attilas_id3logo.jpg - A more colourful logo by Attila Sandor Fiko (3.6 kB, 132 x 132) [[BR]] attachment:3d-logo.gif - A rendered rotating logo by Chris Nunn (44.7 kB, 132 x 132) [[BR]] attachment:id3v2.ico - windows icon file by Chuck Zenkus (8.2 kB, 32 x 32 x 16/256, 48 x 48 x 16/256) [[BR]] attachment:id3v2.ico.zip - windows icon (same as above), packaged for downloading for IE.[[BR]] attachment:id3v2.eps - vectorized version by Magnus Hoff (38.1 kB) [[BR]] attachment:id3v2.emf - vectorized version by Magnus Hoff (1.4 kB) |
The ID3v2 documents
[:id3v2.4.0-structure:ID3v2.4.0 Main Structure] - Plain text document. BR [:id3v2.4.0-frames:ID3v2.4.0 Native Frames] - Plain text document. BR [:id3v2.4.0-changes:ID3v2.4.0 Changes] - Plain text document.
[:d3v2.3.0:ID3v2.3.0 Informal standard] - Plain text document describing ID3v2.3.0. BR [:id3v2.3.0:ID3v2.3.0 Informal standard] - HTML document describing ID3v2.3.0. BR [:id3guide:ID3v2 Programming Guidlines] - What is good and what is ungood. BR
([:id3v2-00:ID3v2.2.0 Informal standard] - Plain text document describing ID3v2.2.0 - obsolete)
Additional standards
ID3 Chapter Frame Addendum
ID3 Chapter (CHAP) and Table of Contents (CTOC) frames were developed in response to the growth in audio files containing more than one distinct audio program. Podcasts are an example of a single audio file which may contain multiple tracks, stories or other distinct audio entries. The addition of the CHAP and CTOC frames to an ID3 tag will provide compatible players with index information into the audio file.
Version 1.0 of the Chapter Frame Addendum was released on December 2, 2005. CTOC & CHAP frames are compatible with ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags.
[:id3v2-chapters-1.0:ID3v2 Chapter Frame Addendum v1.0]
ID3 Accessibility Addendum
The ID3 Accessibility Addendum makes ID3 metadata accessible to the visually impaired via a new Audiotext (ATXT) frame type. The addition of ATXT frames to an ID3 tag will allow compatible players to provide an audible description of the ID3 metadata.
Version 1.0 of the Accessibility Addendum was released on November 20, 2006. ATXT frames are compatible with ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags.
[:id3v2-accessibility-1.0:ID3v2 Accessibility Addendum v1.0]
Unofficial Frames Seen in the Wild
These are frames that are not in the specs that programs are writing:
- COMM w. desc="iTunNORM": ["iTunes Normalization settings"]
- RGAD: ["Replay Gain Adjustment"]
- TCMP: ["iTunes Compilation Flag"]
- TSO2: ["iTunes"] uses this for Album Artist sort order
- TSOC: ["iTunes"] uses this for Composer sort order
- XRVA: ["Experimental RVA2"]
ID3 work in progress
Join the ID3v2 [:MailingList:mailing list] to discuss proposed changes and/or extensions to ID3 tags.
2007-02-03
[:Jud: Jud White] released his first Alpha version of [http://www.idsharp.com IdSharp], a .NET 2.0 tagging library that supports reading and writing 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 tags and converting between the formats. There's also preliminary COM interop support which has been tested with VB6 and VC++6. You can find the code at http://sourceforge.net/projects/idsharp/ and the home page at http://www.idsharp.com.
Related standards
["ISO 639-2"] - Language codes BR ["ISO 4217"] - Currency codes BR ["ISO 3901"] - International Standard Recording Code BR Unicode - The Unicode Consortium (http://www.unicode.org/) BR PNG - The PNG Home Page (http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/) BR zlib - The zlib Home Page (http://www.gzip.org/zlib/)
Example tags
A comprehensive test suite for all versions of ID3 tags are currently under development. The test suite includes both conforming tags and non-conforming tags so that both standards coformance and software robustness can be tested. Part of these will be released as example tags while the rest will be sold to cover development and running expenses. If you are interested, contact Martin Nilsson.
While waiting for the ID3v2 test suite, feel free to try the [attachment:id3v1_test_suite.tar.gz ID3v1/ID3v1.1 test suite.]
ID3v2 logos
The ID3v2 logo is copyright © 1998 Martin Nilsson. You may freely use the ID3v2 logo on pages containing ID3v2 information and in programs supporting the ID3v2 standard.
attachment:id3v2.png - The original logo (2.6 kB, 156 x 149) BR attachment:attilas_id3logo.jpg - A more colourful logo by Attila Sandor Fiko (3.6 kB, 132 x 132) BR attachment:3d-logo.gif - A rendered rotating logo by Chris Nunn (44.7 kB, 132 x 132) BR attachment:id3v2.ico - windows icon file by Chuck Zenkus (8.2 kB, 32 x 32 x 16/256, 48 x 48 x 16/256) BR attachment:id3v2.ico.zip - windows icon (same as above), packaged for downloading for IE.BR attachment:id3v2.eps - vectorized version by Magnus Hoff (38.1 kB) BR attachment:id3v2.emf - vectorized version by Magnus Hoff (1.4 kB)