[ID3 Dev] How do I deal with this problem COMM frame

[Paul Taylor]

Oh gosh, you're right Id never noticed this difference between v23 and 
v24, at least this is only a problem for 'larger' frames

thanks Paul

Jud White wrote:
> ID3v2.4 uses syncsafe frame sizes, the same way the tag size is 
> written.  The COMM frame you're talking about may not be corrupt.
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> Paul Taylor wrote:
>> Its V24, what are their different ways of writing frame sizes ?
>> Jud White wrote:
>>> Have you tested to see if it's written with a syncsafe frame size?  
>>> What ID3 version?
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>>> Paul Taylor wrote:
>>>> In my ID3 Tag library I am having problems with a particular tag. I 
>>>> have a tag with a problem COMM frame, the COMM frame says that it 
>>>> is 1000 bytes long, whereas in fact it is only about 500 bytes 
>>>> long. The end result is that next 500 bytes of the ID3 tag are 
>>>> assumed to be part of the Comment description when in fact they are 
>>>> other frames, and no more frames are loaded after the COMM frame 
>>>> because immediately after 1000 bytes after the COMM frame there is 
>>>> not a valid frame identifier. There are lots of valuable frames 
>>>> after the COMM frame and I would like my tag library to load as 
>>>> much information as I can.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas how I should:
>>>>    Deal with frames in general that have an invalid size in their 
>>>> header,
>>>>    Determine in the */COMM.The actual text field/* the end of the 
>>>> real data, I thought I could look for null terminaters because 
>>>> there should be any in this field
>>>>
>>>> thanks Paul
>>>>
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