[ID3 Dev] TCON confusion

[Pyt]

Actually, I've been a little over-enthusiastic when mentioning "most
apps"...
ID3-TagIt is definitely one; my own private implementation too (but that
wouldn't count...:-). The few other implementations that I've seen
(MusicMatch, WinAmp, Windows Media Player and Turtlebeach's Audiotron [a
hardware device]) implement a single genre. Some of them don't understand
the numeric notation in v2 tag, but they're all compatible with the
null-separated multiple genre: when they encounter one, they just return the
first genre, as you would expect any unaware application (the null char is
interpreted as end of string).

So, in essence, yes, you're right, this seems like a divergence from the
standard, albeit a harmless one.

Anybody cares to comment on other implementations (how about the Java libs
around or id3lib ?).

Thanks,
Pyt.


On 1/14/06, Mitchell S. Honnert <mitch at honnert.com> wrote:
>
> Using a null-separated list of strings (which from my reading is what is
> specified in the v2.4 TCON spec) would have the advantage of being easy to
> implement and that it would follow the only implementation I know about
> (ID3-TagIT), but there just seems to be something wrong with diverging
> from
> the standard so much.
>
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