On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 11:13 PM, Dominic Mazzoni wrote:
Recently some users of Audacity have noted that when they save ID3v2 tags, most programs do not seem to recognize them. One user specifically tried WinAmp 3, CDEx 1.5, Windows Media Player 6.4, and WMP 7.01. None of them recognized any ID3v2 tags from an MP3 file output by Audacity (which uses libid3tag).
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- Anyone have similar experiences? What level of support does most other software have for ID3v2 tags?
It would seem most other software does not yet have support for ID3v2.4.
- Are there any free programs out there you know of that write ID3v2 tags using libid3tag? It would be nice to see if they have the same behavior. It's possible that the bug is in Audacity.
A few that I'm aware of:
- MusicBrainz TunePimp library, used in the MB Tagger http://musicbrainz.org/tagger/index.html
- xmms-mad, plugin for xmms http://xmms-mad.sourceforge.net/
- Any plans to support writing older, but more compatible, versions of ID3 tags for better compatibility with other programs?
Not currently. Although ID3 is fairly miserable in its lack of forward compatibility, the decision to write ID3v2.4 tags exclusively was intended to encourage its adoption and to simplify the implementation and programmer view.
Fortunately it may not be very difficult to modify libid3tag to support writing tags in multiple version formats. It will require some additional translations, but seems possible. I suppose it may happen if there is enough demand for it.
Cheers,