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authorAlexander Levin <al.le@rockbox.org>2011-05-09 20:34:14 +0000
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Manual: add metadata section (FS#12090 by Andree Buschmann with slight modifications by me)
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Sound Interface Device & \fname{.sid} & \\
SPC700 & \fname{.spc} & \\
\end{rbtabular}
+
+ \section{\label{ref:SupportedMetadata}Supported metadata tags}
+ Rockbox supports different metadata formats. In general those tag formats
+ are ID3 (v1 and v2), APE (v1 and v2), Vorbis, MP4 and ASF. Few codecs use
+ codec specific tags, several codecs do not use any tags yet. The following
+ table gives an overview about what tag types rockbox supports for which
+ audio file extension.
+
+ \note{There is always only \emph{one} tag type supported for each file
+ extension.}
+
+ \begin{rbtabular}{\textwidth}{lX}%
+ {\textbf{Extension} & \textbf{Tag type}}{}{}
+ \fname{.mp1}, \fname{.mpa}, \fname{.mp2}, \fname{.mp3},
+ \fname{.rm}, \fname{.ra}, \fname{.rmvb}, \fname{.tta} & ID3 \\
+ \fname{.mpc}, \fname{.ape}, \fname{.mac}, \fname{.wv} & APE \\
+ \fname{.ogg}, \fname{.oga}, \fname{.spx}, \fname{.flac} & Vorbis \\
+ \fname{.m4a}, \fname{.m4b}, \fname{.mp4} & MP4 \\
+ \fname{.wma}, \fname{.wmv}, \fname{.asf} & ASF \\
+ \fname{.mmf}, \fname{.mod}, \fname{.nsf}, \fname{.nsfe},
+ \fname{.sap}, \fname{.sid}, \fname{.spc} & Codec specific \\
+ \fname{.a52}, \fname{.ac3}, \fname{.adx}, \fname{.oma},
+ \fname{.aa3}, \fname{.aif}, \fname{.aiff}, \fname{.au} & None \\
+ \fname{.snd}, \fname{.shn}, \fname{.vox}, \fname{.w64},
+ \fname{.wav}, \fname{.cmc}, \fname{.cm3}, \fname{.cmr} & None \\
+ \fname{.cms}, \fname{.dmc}, \fname{.dlt}, \fname{.mpt},
+ \fname{.mpd} & None \\
+ \end{rbtabular}
}