<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">iTunes doesn't use syncsafe integers when writing v2.4 sizes, which is a pretty major problem...<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 21 Feb 2006, at 22:04, Mitchell S. Honnert wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">A few weeks ago now, I solicited this list for 'ID3 Offenders", examples of applications, libraries, or encoders that somehow didn't comply with the ID3 standard. I got some great feedback and compiled the entries in a single list. There was some talk at the time of adding this list to </SPAN><A href="http://www.id3.org"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">www.id3.org</SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">, but I haven't seen an update. So in the mean time, I posted the list to my ID3 library's page. For those who weren't on the list at the time or for people who just want to check out what I have so far, here's a direct link to the list...</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><A href="http://home.fuse.net/honnert/hundred/UltraID3Lib/offenders/"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">http://home.fuse.net/honnert/hundred/UltraID3Lib/offenders/</SPAN></A></O:P></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">If you have anything to add or correct, I'm thinking the most appropriate thing to do is to reply back to this list. (Disregard the link to my forum on the page.) I can update my list and if we ever want to create a similar page on </SPAN><A href="http://www.id3.org"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">www.id3.org</SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">, we can use it as a starting point. My personal goal is to shame some of these developers into compliance, so obviously this would have more of an impact if the list were on </SPAN><A href="http://www.id3.org"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">www.id3.org</SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">, but I'll keep my list going if that isn't the right venue.</SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">One small note: I've been testing some of the betas of the next version of WinAmp and it looks like they're cleaning up some of the ID3 issues. Woohoo!</SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> - Mitchell S. Honnert</SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>