[ID3 Dev] id2v2.4???

[Jim]

I agree that it is a shame to lose 2.4 because iTunes messes it up.  My
favorite player (foobar2000) only supports writing 2.4 tags currently and
that isn't likely to change in the future.

Perhaps if 2.4 is adopted by more software then Apple will finally fix the
problem in iTunes?  (I know I'm probably deluding myself with such wishful
thinking but I can hope.)  Or perhaps some other work-around can be devised.
But I still think letting Apple ruin the future of 2.4 just because they
can't get it right in iTunes would be a tragedy.

-Jim
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Bennett" <fiji at ayup.limey.net>
To: <id3v2 at id3.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: [ID3 Dev] id2v2.4???


> On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:14:15PM -0800, Robert Manson wrote:
> > I think we should discourage any tags being written in 2.4 due to
> > the iTunes bug.
>
> Ugh.  That is a shame.
>
> I like 2.4's changes to list handling in some of the text frames
> (making them consistently null separated vs. frame specific rules).
>
> I like the improved time handling stuff... making a timestamp format
> and consolidating the split time fields is nice.
>
> I like the sort order frames (but I am not sure if anything uses
> them)
>
> And I love the addition of UTF-8.
>
> Unfortunately you are probably correct though :-(
>
> As a note, you can work around the problem if you only have one large
> frame and you put it at the end of the file.  That way iTunes wants to
> read the longer frame length, but there isn't enough left in the tag
> to read (or it reads the padding), but then renders the image
> correctly (since the jpeg/gif/png has its own size info and the
> trailing junk is ignored).
>
> The nasty case occurs if you have multiple frames > 128 bytes, or if
> the frame contents are not images (or another self-identifying type).
> Or if you are trying to read a tag iTunes wrote.
>
> -ben
>
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