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

[Mark Smith]

Well,  thanks for bringing it up. I'm just in the process of writing  
a tagging library for a high-level scripting language called  
Revolution (formerly metaCard), and it's good to test my  
understanding of the specs when questions arise and discussion  
happens....


Best,

Mark

On 10 Feb 2007, at 04:12, Dale Preston wrote:

> Yeah, as Jud said, as well.  That was hard to accept; I've been  
> doing it
> wrong for 2 years.
>
> Dale
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Smith [mailto:masmit at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Mark Smith
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 8:54 PM
> To: id3v2 at id3.org
> Subject: Re: [ID3 Dev] An addition for the Compliance Issues list.
>
> The spec also says, with regard to all the text frames excluding TXXX:
>
> 4.2 <Header for 'Text information frame', ID: "T000" - "TZZZ",
>       excluding "TXXX" described in 4.2.2.>
>       Text encoding                $xx
>       Information                  <text string according to encoding>
>
> And it doesn't specifically exclude the TYER frame. Nor does it
> exclude the TYER frame from being a null-terminated string. The data
> itself is still just 4 chars, so it seems kind of open to
> interpretation. iTunes 7 does the same (nulls front and back), for
> what it's worth.
>
> On the other hand, maybe MS and Apple are thinking really, really
> long-term, and are leaving space in there for the year 10000 and  
> beyond.
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 10 Feb 2007, at 02:05, 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Dale
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: id3v2-unsubscribe at id3.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: id3v2-help at id3.org
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: id3v2-unsubscribe at id3.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: id3v2-help at id3.org
>


---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: id3v2-unsubscribe at id3.org
For additional commands, e-mail: id3v2-help at id3.org