Language tag not indexed

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Ok, I got a response from Jriver. Looks like I missed a setting to enable saving the Language tag to the file. Apparently its a per-tag setting and for some tags it is disabled. However, the tag is not saved as TLAN for MP3 ID3V2, it uses "Language" instead! And here's the kicker: Minimserver indexes this correctly even though it should have been TLAN. I guess the credit goes to Minimserver for being flexible

The question is, if I use JRiver now and later switch the UPNP server from Minimserver to something else will it break compatibility? I dont want to make a choice now and later tied to it because of compatibility issues.

Here's a summary of my finding, in case someone else runs into the same issue with Language tagging:

JRiver: Writes Language tag correctly for FLAC. Writes Language as Language instead of TLAN for mp3. Minimserver indexes both FLAC and MP3 correctly.

Mp3Tag: Writes Language tag correctly for FLAC. Writes Language as TLAN for mp3. Minimserver index both FLAC and mp3 correctly.

This is what David observed too with mp3tag. For now, i'll stick with JRiver for another reason(*).

PS1: The id3v2 spec says the TLAN values has to be a 3 letter code (according to some ISO spec I cant remember, e.g. 'eng', 'fra', etc. But I write 'English', 'Tamil', etc and Minimserver still displays them exactly as written. Not sure if this will be an issue if I switch to a different UPNP server.

PS2(*): Mp3Tag is slow when saving tags to a SMB share on a NAS device, I use MAC. JRiver is significantly faster, both in importing from NAS and saving tags to NAS.