Tag name
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Description
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ID3 frame
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ID3v1
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ID3v2
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Title
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The 'Title/Songname/Content description' tag is the actual name of the piece (e.g. "Adagio", "Hurricane Donna").
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TIT2
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Artist
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The 'Lead artist/Lead performer/Soloist/Performing group' is used for the main artist.
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TPE1
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Album
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The 'Album/Movie/Show title' tag is intended for the title of the
recording (or source of sound) from which the audio in the file is taken.
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TALB
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Composer
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The 'Composer' tag is intended for the name of the composer.
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TCOM
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Encoded by
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The 'Encoded by' tag contains the name of the person or organisation that encoded the audio file. This field may contain a copyright message, if the audio file also is copyrighted by the encoder.
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TENC
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Track #
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The 'Track number/Position in set' tag is a numeric string containing the order number of the audio-file on its original recording. This may be extended with a "/" character and a numeric string containing the total number of tracks/elements on the original recording. E.g. "4/9".
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TRCK
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Year
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The 'Year' tag is a numeric string with a year of the recording. This frames is always four characters long (until the year 10000).
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TYER
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Genre
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The 'Genre' tag is used for the song genre.
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TCON
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Original artist
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The 'Original artist(s)/performer(s)' tag is intended for the performer(s) of the original recording, if for example the music in the file should be a cover of a previously released song. The performers are separated with the "/" character.
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TOPE
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Copyright
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The 'Copyright message' tag, which must begin with a year and a space character (making five characters), is intended for the copyright holder of the original sound, not the audio file itself. The absence of this tag means only that the copyright information is unavailable or has been removed, and must not be interpreted to mean that the sound is public domain. Every time this field is displayed the field must be preceded with "Copyright © ".
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TCOP
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URL
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User defined URL link tag. This tag cannot be changed in the unregister version of the program.
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WXXX
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Comment
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This tag is indended for any kind of full text information that does not fit in any other tags.
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COMM
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