TINP
Overview
TIN (Tango Info Number) is a 14-digit numeric identifier used by tango.info and others.
The TIN scheme was designed by tango.info to be used instead of the GTIN (Global Trade Item Number) scheme where tango-related items need to be covered. It covers all items that GTIN does, plus tango items that GTIN does not cover due to the GTIN authority having not assigned them numbers.
The TIN set is a superset of the used GTIN set. Specifically, it contains all used numbers in the GTIN set, and it also contains special TINs.
usage
tango.info uses TINs in URLs, e.g.
http://eng.tango.info/00724383741328 http://eng.tango.info/02480002201526
they are also needed for tagging with tools.tango.info.
checkdigit
http://tools.tango.info/checkdigit.php
TINT
The TINT scheme is a TIN-based scheme for referencing individual tracks.
A TINT is a reference to one track of one side of one album, and is of the form:
- <TIN>-<d>-<t> where <d> and <t> are the decimal side and track number without leading zeros, e.g. 00008637207120-1-1 .
TINT\ is an alternative presentation in which '-' is replaced by '\'. Likewise TINT/.
TINT-based filing
TINT\ may be used as the filepath format for a music library e.g. one track's filepath is D:\MyMusic\00008637207120\1\1.WMA .
This filepath contains no metadata such as album title, artist etc., an advantage being that metadata may be corrected without breaking references e.g. in playlists. In TINT-based filing, local playlist references never break because the TINT part of the filepath never changes.
To ease identification when browing the folder tree directly, each album folder may contain a file named <Album> - <Abum Artist>.txt or .htm. This can contain track metadata.
To ease location of a particular album, an additional subfolder named e.g. "!Explore by Album title" may contain links/shortcuts to all the album folders, each named e.g. <Album> - <Abum Artist>.lnk. A second subfolder may contain a set named e.g. <Abum Artist> - <Album>.lnk.
TINT fields and tags
TINT fields values are normally maintained also in the audio file tag values, for example:
- TIN - stored as a custom sub-field of Album: King of Rhythm 1937-1944 [00008637207120]
- Disc# - stored as the first sub-field of WMA/PartOfSet, FLAC Discnumber or MP3 TPOS. E.g. the "1" in TOPS "1/2" for the first disc of a two-disc album.
- Track# - stored as track number.
reading
4.2.1 TPOS Part of a set
The 'Part of a set' frame is a numeric string that describes which part of a set the audio came from. This frame is used if the source described in the "TALB" frame is divided into several mediums, e.g. a double CD. The value MAY be extended with a "/" character and a numeric string containing the total number of parts in the set. E.g. "1/2".
This means that the latest version of the standard for ID3 tags (the type of tags used in MP3 files) has a tag field for side number e.g. the first CD of a two-CD album would have TPOS "1/2".