[ID3 Dev] Tag archive and a couple questions

[Jim]

Hi Jud.

When you say you are new to the list, I'm not sure how "new" you mean.  You
should be able to find the official wiki at http://www.id3.org

It's really great to see that someone has an archive of tags that can be
used for testing.  I think it was a few months ago that compiling such an
archive was considered a project that would never happen.  Hopefully one of
the wiki admins can find a way to incorporate your archive.

As for the 2.4 frames in 2.3 tags, I think you are right that it is a
compatibility effort.  I think that foobar2000 is one of the players that
offers such an option.  The author of that app doesn't want to write a
separate library for writing 2.3 tags but wants to offer some solution for
those that use other apps or players that don't support 2.4 at all.  I don't
know if there is a consensus of opinion about this approach.  My own opinion
is that this approach isn't a permanent fix but at least a workable one
until 2.4 gains more acceptance/support.  (I'm not sure if you joined the
list in time to see the messages from a couple days ago where it was
suggested that use of 2.4 be discouraged because of the broken
implementation used in iTunes.  Just an example of why you might be seeing
2.4 frames in 2.3 tags.)

Hopefully someone in a official position can answer this more fully.

-Jim


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jud White" <jwhite at cdtag.com>
To: <id3v2 at id3.org>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 12:50 AM
Subject: [ID3 Dev] Tag archive and a couple questions


> Hello all,
>
> I'm new to the list and just wanted to take a minute to say hello and
> introduce myself.  I've been using ID3v2 in C++ since 1999.  I currently
> live in Houston (US) with my fiancée and one furry cat, and have been in
> professional software development for some years.  My current technical
> focus is on client-side C#.  I author some tagging software in my spare
> time and may release a lib I'm working on in C#.
>
> I've put together a collection of 93,000 ID3v2 tags intended for library
> authors to test their code.  The collection contains 2.2, 2.3, 2.4,
> compressed frames, unsynchronised tags, most (but not all) frame types,
> and lots of mis-written frames.  I've taken note of the most common
> errors in implementation, but it's rather spread out at the moment in
> comments.  I hope to consolidate this list and make it available.  The
> tags archive is available here: http://cdtag.com/tags/id3tags.7z.
>
> A couple questions:
> - I've seen a lot of 2.4 frames in 2.3 tags, most likely some
> implementation trying to offer more content while not breaking apps that
> only support 2.3.  Is there a consensus (right or wrong) on this
> behavior?  What about additions to enum types?
> - Is there a new link for the wiki?
>
> Thanks for all your hard work.
>
> Jud
>
>
>
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