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Ok, right now I have a blocking issue of not knowing where to get genre information from...I'm hesitant to make an enum to contain all possible genre's because what little information I've been able to find on this, looks to be like there's 100+ different genre classifications.

I think it would be better to read in all possible genre's into an array of some sort at run-time. So I'll start with that.  However, I'm a little confused by something?  The spec for ID3v2 says that the genre is contained by 1 character...isn't 1 chacater = to a 1 digit number?  If there's 100+ possible genre's I'm not sure how it contains that...anyone care to enlighten me?

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  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2005
    ID3v1 uses one byte to select a genre from a predefined list of genres. ID3v2, however uses the TCON frame for genre information. This frame can contain multiple genre strings seperated by a zero byte. For example: "Rock�Pop". You can also reference one of the ID3v1 predefined genres by putting braces around its decimal string representation. For Example: "(17)�(13)" equals my first example.
  • Anonymous
    May 28, 2005
    Also, many programs seem to allow you to put free text in genre. I use MusicMatch and you can type anything you want in the genre field. (Plus, it's got a drop down)
  • Anonymous
    June 03, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    June 14, 2005
    The base genre tags are defined as part of the ID3 standard, I believe. You're also allowed to use freeform ones as well.
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