Tango.info music track metadata submissions
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data.tango.info is the data provider of tango.info. Hence for example the data that you see for an album such as http://www.tango.info/00724349997226 is provided by data.tango.info, and presented by www.tango.info.
track metadata submissions
The format preferred by the data.tango.info editor for receiving track metadata is text consisting of:
- a header line containing the Mp3tag format string below
- for each track, one line containing the metadata field values as generated by this Mp3tag format string:
<TIN>;%album% - %BAND%;cd;%discnumber%;%track%;%title%;%genre%;%artist%;;%year%;%_length_seconds%
where <TIN> is an expression that depends on the source but yields the album TIN. If the source is TINT-based filing, this expression is %_parent_directory%.
For example:
<TIN>;%album% - %BAND%;cd;%discnumber%;%track%;%title%;%genre%;%artist%;;%year%;%_length_seconds% 00743216153824;RCA Club [00743216153824] - Francisco Lomuto;cd;1/1;1;Nostalgias;Tango;Francisco Lomuto canta Jorge Omar;;;182 00743216153824;RCA Club [00743216153824] - Francisco Lomuto;cd;1/1;2;Quiero verte una véz más;Tango;Francisco Lomuto canta Fernando Díaz;;;145 00743216153824;RCA Club [00743216153824] - Francisco Lomuto;cd;1/1;3;Sentimiento gaucho;Tango;Francisco Lomuto;;;172 00743216153824;RCA Club [00743216153824] - Francisco Lomuto;cd;1/1;4;Madreselva;Tango;Francisco Lomuto canta Jorge Omar;;;155 00743216153824;RCA Club [00743216153824] - Francisco Lomuto;cd;1/1;5;La melodía de nuestro adiós [chop at 0s!, jump at 1m33s];Tango;Francisco Lomuto canta Jorge Omar;;;138 00743216153824;RCA Club [00743216153824] - Francisco Lomuto;cd;1/1;6;Damisela encantadora;Vals;Francisco Lomuto canta Jorge Omar;;;175 00743216153824;RCA Club [00743216153824] - Francisco Lomuto;cd;1/1;7;Por la vuelta;Tango;Francisco Lomuto canta Jorge Omar;;;148 00743216153824;RCA Club [00743216153824] - Francisco Lomuto;cd;1/1;8;Dímelo al oído;Tango;Francisco Lomuto canta Alberto Rivera;;;158 00743216153824;RCA Club [00743216153824] - Francisco Lomuto;cd;1/1;9;Adiós muchachos;Tango;Francisco Lomuto canta Jorge Omar;;;160 00743216153824;RCA Club [00743216153824] - Francisco Lomuto;cd;1/1;10;Intimas [noisy!];Tango;Francisco Lomuto canta Carlos Galarce;;;156 00743216153824;RCA Club [00743216153824] - Francisco Lomuto;cd;1/1;11;Caminito;Tango;Francisco Lomuto canta Cerry Brian, Jorge Omar;;;193 00743216153824;RCA Club [00743216153824] - Francisco Lomuto;cd;1/1;12;Noche de ronda;Vals;Francisco Lomuto;;;151 00743216153824;RCA Club [00743216153824] - Francisco Lomuto;cd;1/1;13;las cuarenta;Tango;Francisco Lomuto canta Jorge Omar;;;166 00743216153824;RCA Club [00743216153824] - Francisco Lomuto;cd;1/1;14;La gayola;Tango;Francisco Lomuto canta Fernando Díaz;;;189
The following Mp3tag export config will generate such a text from a TIN-based filing source:
'<TIN>;%album% - %BAND%;cd;%discnumber%;%track%;%title%;%genre%;%artist%;;%year%;%_length_seconds%' $loop(%_parent_directory%\%_directory%\%track%)%_parent_directory%;%album% - %BAND%;cd;%discnumber%;%track%;%title%;%genre%;%artist%;;%year%;%_length_seconds% $loopend()
issues
- The use of ' - ' as %album%/%BAND% separator prevents certain parsing of this field, due to the fact that this sequence is not reserved.
- Proposed fix: change to tab character.