[ID3 Dev] Apple iTunes complicance issues

[Scott Wheeler]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:05:43 -0500, Ben Bennett wrote:
> 
> Any 2.4 app will do it... unfortunately I don't have a good survey of
> what writes 2.4 vs. 2.3 

Using the examples from TagLib should be fine. 
(http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html)

Compile using the standard UNIX "./configure && make" then go into the 
examples dir and also type "make".  Then there will be something called 
"tagwriter".  This produces a tag that iTunes can't read:

./tagwriter -t 
"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" 
-a 
"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" 
test.mp3

iTunes reports no title and the artist as:

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZTALB

Note the "TALB" at the end there.  It then hits a null byte and decides 
that the string is done.

-Scott

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