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<DIV><FONT size=2>Hi all,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Hello all of you. My name is Tony. I am coming from Malaysia.
Nice to meet all of you.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Recently, I study about ID3 format information. I've read
over the id3v2.4.0-structure.txt and I am not so sure about the usage of the
text string as I read the Chapter 4. ID3v2 frames overview. In fact, I
don't quite understand the following paragraph:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><PRE><EM>If nothing else is said, strings, including numeric strings and URLs
[URL], are represented as ISO-8859-1 [ISO-8859-1] characters in the
range $20 - $FF. Such strings are represented in frame descriptions
<STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000>as <text string>, or <full text string></FONT></STRONG> if newlines are allowed. If
nothing else is said newline character is forbidden. In ISO-8859-1 a
newline is represented, when allowed, with $0A only.
Frames that allow different types of text encoding contains a text
encoding description byte. Possible encodings:
$00 ISO-8859-1 [ISO-8859-1]. Terminated with $00.
$01 UTF-16 [UTF-16] encoded Unicode [UNICODE] with BOM. All
strings in the same frame SHALL have the same byteorder.
Terminated with $00 00.
$02 UTF-16BE [UTF-16] encoded Unicode [UNICODE] without BOM.
Terminated with $00 00.
$03 UTF-8 [UTF-8] encoded Unicode [UNICODE]. Terminated with $00.
Strings dependent on encoding are represented in frame descriptions
as <text string according to encoding>, or <full text string
according to encoding> if newlines are allowed. Any empty strings of
type $01 which are NULL-terminated may have the Unicode BOM followed
by a Unicode NULL ($FF FE 00 00 or $FE FF 00 00).</EM></PRE></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>My question is : 1. What is the format of </FONT><FONT
color=#ff0000 size=3><STRONG><EM><text string>, or <full text
string> </EM></STRONG><FONT color=#000000 size=2>? </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT
size=2> 2.
How is the four types of text will be written in the mp3 files? What is the
starting byte(s) and end byte(s)?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT
size=2> 3.
Do you have any example about this kind of mp3? I've some mp3 file but the text
string format is always starting with a zero and the following bytes are always
the DBCS(Double Byte Character Set) code, like big5, jis or others.
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Anyway, I hope someone can help me to crack my troubles. Thank
you very much.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Tony Teo</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>