<![CDATA[Is there a more-or-less standard convention for storing Language info in the (FLAC) tags?]]>I've not noticed anything like this, but I'm interested in storing this information and so it would be smarter to try to do it the right way.
I think it needs to be a list of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639_language_codes, could be named "Languages".
On the other hand, it's somewhat common to have songs in made-up languages which wouldn't have the language code, but is there any interest in supporting them?

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On the other hand, it's somewhat common to have songs in made-up languages which wouldn't have the language code, but is there any interest in supporting them?

You could use "mis", "und" or "zxx", depending on the case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-3#Generic_codes

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There definitely is a tagging convention; ffmpeg / ffprobe treat language as a tag that applies to every media stream. If you're creating or editing a file, you can set that tag to whatever arbitrary value you want.

I believe there's supposed to be a convention of using shortcut codes for languages, but when I create files I intentionally violate that. I use mpv to play videos and when you select an audio or subtitle stream, it will display the language tagged for that stream; I prefer to display "English" than "eng" or "en".

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