Tag type to write.
The drop-down menu specifies the type of tag(s) to write to
tracks. Five options are available:
APEv2 tags only.
APEv2 in an updated version of the tagging system using by
Monkey’s Audio. It offers some of the informational
freedom of ID3v2.x combined with the speed of ID3v1.x as
it’s stored at the end of a track. Similar to ID3v2.x
however, support for reading APEv2 tags in other media
players may be limited.
APEv2 & ID3v1.
Select this option to write both APEv2 & ID3v1 tags, this
provides for both improved tagged data & better
compatibility via ID3v1 tags. Performance should also be
good as both are written to the end of the files.
ID3v1 tags only.
ID3v1 tags are the least complicated of tag type, supporting
only a handful of informational fields, i.e. Title, Artist,
Album, Comment (These 4 limited to 30 characters each), Year
& Genre. ID3v1.1 adds Track Number support. This makes it
comparatively limited in the information that can be stored
on a track. In its favour, the ID3v1.x tag is located at the
final 128bytes of a file, making it fast to update changes &
it’s also perhaps the easiest tag to find supported by other
media players (Software or hardware, e.g. iPod).
ID3v2.
ID3v2 is an updated version of ID3v1.x, eliminating the
limitations of the previous version, e.g. 30 character field
limits, & adding numerous extra fields & other functions.
Unlike ID3v1.x however ID3v2 tags (Pre-ID3v2.4 anyway) are
stored at the beginning of a track, making it slower to save
changes than other tag types supported (Depending on file
size too of course) as often the entire file will need to be
re-written in many instances. Support for ID3v2 tags in
other applications may also be an issue.
ID3v2 & ID3v1.
Select this option to write both ID3v2 & ID3v1 tags, this
provides for both improved tagged data & better
compatibility via ID3v1 tags. As before however, performance
can be considerably slowed when using ID3v2 tags as the
entire file may need to be re-written while updating the
tags.
Remove ID3v2 tags while updating.
Should you not have selected to write ID3v2 tags previously,
then it would be recommended to select this option to
remove them whenever you’re updating a file that contains
ID3v2 tags.
Real-time bitrate display for VBR files.
Select this option to enable the display of
the actual current bitrate of VBR (Variable
Bit Rate) encoded tracks (as opposed to only the
average). This is displayed in parenthesis beside the
average bitrate of a track:
If you can get by without this feature then
unselect this option.
Update every X frames.
X specifies the number of data frames between
updating the current bitrate of VBR encoded tracks. As you
can probably guess, selecting a higher number yields
a larger interval between updates and vice versa. Set this
to your own preference.
