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Title: Which ID3 2.X version.. 2.3?
Post by: drierp on October 28, 2003, 10:55:55 pm

Can anyone tell me which version Media Center 9 supports?  ITunes was nice enough to allow me to convert between any versions I want, while I can't find any documentation to the version(s) that MC9 allows..  

It does appear it doesn't like 2.4 one bit, which I find a bit surprising, given is was spec'd out in dec 2000..  I wish I knew that before MC9 trounced a few hundred tags..  Isn't it part of the ID3 spec that if an application doesn't recognise a future version, it should leave said tags alone?  

Also..  if I were a wishing man, I'd wish for a column telling me the version..  (or maybe even 2 cols, one for 1.x, and one for 2.x version)... this would also extend to us all the other wonderful features (smartlists, ...) MC9 is already good at.

Thanks,
Peter

Title: Re:Which ID3 2.X version.. 2.3?
Post by: KingSparta on October 29, 2003, 05:25:22 am

most mp3 programs do not support id3 version 2.4

i think MC9 reads it but does not write it.

Title: Re:Which ID3 2.X version.. 2.3?
Post by: drierp on October 30, 2003, 07:39:46 pm

I tried it again, and it appears to show 2.4 tags as a 0 length 2.x tag, with no values.  If it's edited, they all go to blank.  Not good.

Title: Re:Which ID3 2.X version.. 2.3?
Post by: NoCodeUK on October 31, 2003, 04:44:42 am

You can find out what id3 versions are being used by going to the plugins page and selecting the properties of the mp3 input plugin.

Adam

Title: Re:Which ID3 2.X version.. 2.3?
Post by: rocketsauce on October 31, 2003, 05:36:41 am

The mp3 input plug-in properties doesn't show whether the tags are ID3 v2.3 or v2.4.

As King Sparta said, though, it's been my understanding that, for whatever reasons, there are very few programs that actually support v2.4 tags. I'm not really even sure what the difference is between v2.3 and v2.4.

Rob

Title: Re:Which ID3 2.X version.. 2.3?
Post by: MachineHead on October 31, 2003, 06:21:07 am

And yet another reason for mp3's to support apev2 tags. Wish MC could do this now. Or at least give us the option of writing apev2 tags if we wanted them.