[ID3 Dev] An addition for the Compliance Issues list.

[Jud White]

Dale,

It's the text encoding byte, and the terminator is optional, at least to 
the point where the spec says ignore anything that comes after a 
terminator in a text field.

Brian Mearns wrote:
> They must be preparing for the Y10K bug.
>
> -Brian
>
> Dale Preston wrote:
>> I have a couple additions for the compliance issues list.
>>  
>>
>> Windows Media Player 10 creates improper ID3V2.3 TYER frames.  They 
>> are 5 bytes long though the standard specifically states they are 
>> always 4 bytes long.  The leading byte is a zero value.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Windows Media Player 11 leads with a zero value byte but also appends 
>> a zero value byte, giving a length of 6 bytes for the ID3V2.3 TYER 
>> frame.
>>
>>  
>>
>> I can provide samples if necessary.
>>
>>  
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>>  
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>> Dale
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>>  
>>
>
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