On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 03:24:03PM -0700, Rob Leslie wrote:
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.
Wow. To encourage adoption, they made sure there was no smooth upgrade path? Another strike against a horrible format.