[mad-dev] Question about ID3v2.4 tags vs. older tags

All right, now for the questions.

When libid3tag reads in a TYER tag (and other date/time tags) it coalesces them (at least when writing a v2.4 tag) into a TDRC tag. It appears that iTunes does not read the TDRC tag and prefers TYER, even in v2.4 tags. The comments in libid3tag say that TYER et al. are obsolete, but I'd like to go ahead and write them out anyway.

Has anyone encountered this problem and maybe coded a workaround? My initial try was unsuccessful.

Also, I would _love_ to read the id3v2.4 spec, (especially regarding TDRC vs. TYER) but www.id3.org has been down for quite some time. Is it gone? Does anyone have the spec that they could email me?

Thanks,

- Mark Malson