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From: Ian McCall on 9 Feb 2006 09:52
The lyrics in iTunes - are they stored as a tag within the music file
itself, or in some separate area?

The reason I ask is that I've just added the lyrics to a track (Smash
Mouth, Padrino, daftly catchy), but I've discovered the track is from
ye olde days and is a 128kbps VBR Xing rip I made years back. I'm
likely to get home tonight and re-rip the CD, which will offer to
replace the tracks. At that stage, will the lyircs still be there or
will I have lost them?

It's no t a hassle either way - just cut'n'paste from the trashed file.
But it's worth me asking just to note thta I have something to remember
to do other than merely rip the CD.


Cheers,
Ian

From: Chris Ridd on 9 Feb 2006 09:57
On 9/2/06 2:52, in article 45139uF4d8n5U1(a)individual.net, "Ian McCall"
<ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote:

> The lyrics in iTunes - are they stored as a tag within the music file
> itself, or in some separate area?

It depends on the format and I guess what sort of tag you're trying to add.

For example iTunes doesn't support tagging AIFF files, so the extra bits are
kept outside of the file.

Cheers,

Chris

From: Ben Shimmin on 9 Feb 2006 10:03
Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org>:
> The lyrics in iTunes - are they stored as a tag within the music file
> itself, or in some separate area?

They're in the file themselves. You can verify this with strings(1), eg.:

[15:01][bas(a)candide:~/Public/iTunes/iTunes Music/Roots Manuva/Run Come Save Me]$ strings 03\ Witness\ \(1\ Hope\).m4a | grep "well"
ell well well [x3]
[CHORUS]ell well well [x3]

b.

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From: Jon B on 9 Feb 2006 10:50
Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote:

> The lyrics in iTunes - are they stored as a tag within the music file
> itself, or in some separate area?
>
> The reason I ask is that I've just added the lyrics to a track (Smash
> Mouth, Padrino, daftly catchy), but I've discovered the track is from
> ye olde days and is a 128kbps VBR Xing rip I made years back. I'm
> likely to get home tonight and re-rip the CD, which will offer to
> replace the tracks. At that stage, will the lyircs still be there or
> will I have lost them?
>
> It's no t a hassle either way - just cut'n'paste from the trashed file.
> But it's worth me asking just to note thta I have something to remember
> to do other than merely rip the CD.
>
If it recognises the track as being the same one, it may well update the
one in the DB and keep any extra info you've tagged into it....
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