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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1284139" data-attributes="member: 141969">I did some rummaging <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> . The following is a screenshot of the contents of the start of the Kuenssberg MP3 file displayed in &quot;dump&quot; format. Dump format displays 16 bytes per line, with the data displayed in hexadecimal on the left, and the corresponding character representation shown on the right. The editor that I use does this automatically, but do not try this with Notepad, as Notepad went into an infinite loop when I tried this on my WinXP system <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> ):[ATTACH]208588[/ATTACH]It is possible to identify various of the tags in the character representation of the MP3 data (title, content type, year, copyright, and description). Looking at the built-in skin variables available in MP1, I noticed that there is a whole set of &quot;#music.xxx&quot; variables, one of which is &quot;#music.comment&quot; which I was not using in my customised skin. I modified the xml file and voila the description appears:[ATTACH]208589[/ATTACH]I must try some of the other &quot;#music.xxx&quot; variables to see if there is anything else of interest. I did test MP1's &quot;DeafaultWideHD&quot; skin, but that does not show the description. Something that [USER=54906]@catavolt[/USER] might want to consider, perhaps?I also tried several MP3 tag editors. The first two would not install on WinXP, but the third did (&quot;ID3 Tag Editor&quot;). However, it did not show the description, even though one of the tag variants it supports has a &quot;Comment&quot; field. So, in conclusion I think that BBC podcasts do have MP3 tags, including the description and the thumbnail, but it looks as though MP2 is not currently using them. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />-- from CyberSimian in the UK</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1284139, member: 141969"] I did some rummaging :D . The following is a screenshot of the contents of the start of the Kuenssberg MP3 file displayed in "dump" format. Dump format displays 16 bytes per line, with the data displayed in hexadecimal on the left, and the corresponding character representation shown on the right. The editor that I use does this automatically, but do not try this with Notepad, as Notepad went into an infinite loop when I tried this on my WinXP system :( ): [ATTACH]208588[/ATTACH] It is possible to identify various of the tags in the character representation of the MP3 data (title, content type, year, copyright, and [b]description[/b]). Looking at the built-in skin variables available in MP1, I noticed that there is a whole set of "#music.xxx" variables, one of which is "#music.comment" which I was not using in my customised skin. I modified the xml file and [i]voila[/i] the description appears: [ATTACH]208589[/ATTACH] I must try some of the other "#music.xxx" variables to see if there is anything else of interest. I did test MP1's "DeafaultWideHD" skin, but that does not show the description. Something that [USER=54906]@catavolt[/USER] might want to consider, perhaps? I also tried several MP3 tag editors. The first two would not install on WinXP, but the third did ("ID3 Tag Editor"). However, it did [b]not[/b] show the description, even though one of the tag variants it supports has a "Comment" field. So, in conclusion I think that BBC podcasts [i]do[/i] have MP3 tags, including the [b]description[/b] and the [b]thumbnail[/b], but it looks as though MP2 is not currently using them. :( -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]

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