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[Ian Monroe]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Leif B. Kristensen <leif at solumslekt.org> wrote:
> Yes I do. I'm also seeing it when I look at the file's properties 'Meta
> Info' in Konqueror. For instance, I wrote the text 'Live at Jazz at the
> Philharmonic in New York, From Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker' in
> one track, and it's truncated to 'Live at Jazz at the Philharm' when I
> look at it.
>
> Here's the output from audiotag vs. id3v2:
>
> leif at balapapa ~/musikk/Jazz/Ella Fitzgerald/First Lady Of Song $
> audiotag -l 01\ Perdido.mp3
>
> *** `01 Perdido.mp3'
> === ALBUM: First Lady Of Song
> === ARTIST: Ella Fitzgerald
> === COMMENTS: Live at Jazz at the Philharm
> === GENRE: Jazz
> === TITLE: Perdido
> === TRACKNUM: 1
> === YEAR: 1949
> leif at balapapa ~/musikk/Jazz/Ella Fitzgerald/First Lady Of Song $
> id3v2 -l 01\ Perdido.mp3
> id3v1 tag info for 01 Perdido.mp3:
> Title  : Perdido                         Artist: Ella Fitzgerald
> Album  : First Lady Of Song     Year: 1949, Genre: Jazz (8)
> Comment: Live at Jazz at the Philharm    Track: 1
>
> As you write that "We do use id3v2.4 by default", it's a bit strange
> that id3v2 only reports the id3v1tag.

Agreed. I'm not really familiar with audiotag though, could you try
with the following tool, I've used it before and I'd consider it
authoritative:
http://eyed3.nicfit.net/

Ian