[ID3 Dev] id2v2.4???

[Ben Bennett]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:14:15PM -0800, Robert Manson wrote:
> I think we should discourage any tags being written in 2.4 due to
> the iTunes bug.

Ugh.  That is a shame.

I like 2.4's changes to list handling in some of the text frames
(making them consistently null separated vs. frame specific rules).

I like the improved time handling stuff... making a timestamp format
and consolidating the split time fields is nice.

I like the sort order frames (but I am not sure if anything uses
them)

And I love the addition of UTF-8.

Unfortunately you are probably correct though :-(

As a note, you can work around the problem if you only have one large
frame and you put it at the end of the file.  That way iTunes wants to
read the longer frame length, but there isn't enough left in the tag
to read (or it reads the padding), but then renders the image
correctly (since the jpeg/gif/png has its own size info and the
trailing junk is ignored).

The nasty case occurs if you have multiple frames > 128 bytes, or if
the frame contents are not images (or another self-identifying type).
Or if you are trying to read a tag iTunes wrote.

			-ben

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