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<?xml version='1.0' encoding="utf-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
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"docbook/dtd/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
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<title>The Music Player Daemon Sticker Database</title>
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<title>Introduction to MPD's Sticker Database</title>
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This document shell give a short guideline for recommended tags
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for use in MPD's Sticker Database.
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MPD's Sticker Database is a subsystem that enables users to add
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custom tags. MPD does not alter the media files.
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<title>Guideline for recommended tags</title>
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Since there is no standard for tags in media files, this
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document is trying to give you some help deciding what tags to
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use. The selection of these tags tries to cover the most
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widely used tags. This way the tags might still work in other
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players, if you sync the database with your original media
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Keep in mind that we stick with lower case tags with underscores
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instead of spaces. If there will be a Sync tool in future
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its easy to change this on the fly, if needed.
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<term><varname>rating</varname></term>
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Will store a rating value from 1 (worst) to 5 (best) for a
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<term><varname>album_rating</varname></term>
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Will store a rating value from 1 (worst) to 5 (best) for a
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<term><varname>style</varname></term>
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This tag is used to keep the Genre tag clean, by now
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having 1000's of genres. Instead you define a Main Genre
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for each file and can make a more specific
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description. This should be one Keyword like "Post Punk"
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or "Progressive Death Metal" An Alternative name for this
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tag is "Subgenre", time will tell which one gets more
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<term><varname>lyrics</varname></term>
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This one is self explaining. This gives the option to
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store lyrics of a song where they belong to: mapped to the
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<term><varname>similar_artists</varname> (Comma seperated list of artists)</term>
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This tag enables a last.fm alike aproach which will still
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work when being offline Keep in mind, that this tag is
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absolutely non-standard! I am not aware of any other
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player that uses a comparable tag.