[ID3 Dev] ID3v2

Brian Mearns bmearns at coe.neu.edu
Tue Nov 1 19:48:39 PST 2005


Always keep in mind one of the guiding principles for ID3 development:

"Be flexible in what you accept, but strict in what you write."

[http://www.id3.org/id3guide.htm#Usage]

-Brian Mearns

Kirk McMillan wrote:
> Many thanks to the couple of folk who answered some questions I had a 
> few days ago.
> 
> I've reluctantly come to the conclusion there simply isn't an ID3v2 spec 
> as such that's being adhered to.
> Various programs *write* the header frames differently and other 
> programs interpret then differently.
> 
> BTW, these are just the basic, common headers as used e.g. in Winamp 5.
> 
> It seems the only solution is write tags in such a way that your 
> preferred reader shows them all.
> 
> Cheers - Kirk
> 
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