[ID3 Dev] 0-termination in text frames

[Scott Wheeler]

Ben Bennett wrote:
> The 2.4 implementations I've seen do not handle multiple substrings
> (amarok, itunes).
>   

TagLib, used by Amarok does, but the Amarok GUI (and in fact the 
"simple" TagLib API) does not.  They just take the first value.

>> So, if you write a 0 terminator at the end of the string, you
>> definitely are on the safe side.
>>     
>
> For 2.3 that is certainly true, but I am not so sure in the case of
> 2.4.  If you have a terminator following the value then doesn't that
> imply a 0-length item?
>   

Yes, I've mentioned that in the past.  It's a subtle distinction, but in 
2.4 a null terminated string technically indicates two strings, the 
second one being empty.

-Scott

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