[ID3 Dev] How do I deal with this problem COMM frame

[Jud White]

Have you tested to see if it's written with a syncsafe frame size?  What 
ID3 version?

Paul Taylor wrote:
> In my ID3 Tag library I am having problems with a particular tag. I 
> have a tag with a problem COMM frame, the COMM frame says that it is 
> 1000 bytes long, whereas in fact it is only about 500 bytes long. The 
> end result is that next 500 bytes of the ID3 tag are assumed to be 
> part of the Comment description when in fact they are other frames, 
> and no more frames are loaded after the COMM frame because immediately 
> after 1000 bytes after the COMM frame there is not a valid frame 
> identifier. There are lots of valuable frames after the COMM frame and 
> I would like my tag library to load as much information as I can.
>
> Any ideas how I should:
>    Deal with frames in general that have an invalid size in their header,
>    Determine in the */COMM.The actual text field/* the end of the real 
> data, I thought I could look for null terminaters because there should 
> be any in this field
>
> thanks Paul
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