AW: [ID3 Dev] going past 256 char limit in comment field in iTunes

[Mathias Kunter]

Yes, correct.

Mathias.





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Von: Samuel Lago <lovelago at gmail.com>
An: id3v2 at id3.org
Gesendet: Sonntag, den 11. Januar 2009, 01:06:42 Uhr
Betreff: Re: [ID3 Dev] going past 256 char limit in comment field in iTunes

Many thanks! So what your saying (to be absolutely sure) is that iTunes sets the limit of 256 chars in the comments field for media like music and video - specifically .mov. Which means at any time in the future Apple can lift that to allow for any length, like QT Pro does now?

Thanks.

Samuel (E)
sɐɯnǝl (ǝ)



2009/1/10 Peter Bennett <pgbennett at comcast.net>

The ID3 format is only used with mp3 audio files. mov files will use some other format for tags. The ID3 v2.3 and 2.4 do not set any limit to the length of a comment tag in an mp3 file (you can make it as long as you want).

If quicktime limits the length of comment text in mp3 music files then that is a limit of quicktime itself, not of the ID3 standard

Peter


Samuel Lago wrote:

I make a lot of home videos in the .mov format, thye all have a story
attached to them. I would like to use iTunes (on the Mac) to store those
videos and tag them inside iTunes, however there is the problem of the ID3
256 char limit, my stories go well beyond that. Originally I was unsure of
the reason for the limit as QuickTime Pro will embed as much metadata into
the comment field as you like, however when importing the same video file
into iTunes only the first 256 chars were viewable.

I need to get past this limit, this I can do with QT Pro but I would like to
have iTunes as my solution to storing and viewing both music and videos. I
could tag everything with QT Pro but that would be the 'wrong' kind of
workflow for me. So what of this v4 revision to the ID3 standard, I read
that the comment field jumped form 128bit to 256 from v1 to v2, can I expect
more leniency in the v4 spec?

Also, can anybody tell me what then QT uses to store the comment data in?

Thanks.

Samuel (E)
sɐɯnǝl (ǝ)
 



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