mkv file tags and corresponding explorer values

[paulgoulain]

Hi,

I've been playing with mkv files and their tags using the list from matroska.org and I wanted to see which tags are handle by Icaros and to which explorer value they are linked.

I can see that the TITLE tag of the mkv file is correctly parsed and display in the explorer, but the ACTOR tag isn't.
Do you have a list of tags Icaros can parse and under which name they are displayed in the explorer ?

Thank you !

[Xanashi]

Hi paulgoulain,

There is no Actor property in Explorer so I don't currently handle that tag in Icaros.
The following MKV tags are handled:

TITLE
ARTIST
PART_NUMBER
SUBTITLE
COMMENT
COPYRIGHT
DATE_RECORDED
DATE_RELEASED
GENRE
MOOD
COMPOSER
CONDUCTOR
PUBLISHER
URL
RATING
RATING WMP
BPM
INITIAL_KEY

The following tags are are also handled for ALBUM variants:

TITLE
ARTIST
PART_NUMBER

Hope that helps

[paulgoulain]

Thank you for the list.

I don't know if it would make sense to consider ACTOR tag as a contributing artist in the explorer ? Also to consider KEYWORDS tag as a tag in the explorer. Those are subject to debate I guess.

Others have a direct equivalent with the explorer, like PRODUCER, DIRECTOR or even COMMENT and COPYRIGHT (although the last two are kind of exotic ^^). Would it be interesting to implement them ?

[Xanashi]

I definitely don't mind adding KEYWORDS, PRODUCER and DIRECTOR. I'll make sure they are included in the next release.
COMMENT and COPYRIGHT are already included. ;)

ACTOR as 'contributing artist' is not quite possible, as that property is already used by the ARTIST tag.