<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thank's for the details! <div><br></div><div>So I go for a non standard but iTunes compatibility solution. I know this is not really sweet but in this case the iTunes compatibility is more important. And once again I can blame iTunes but I'm not sure if it can take it anymore... I had to blame it too much lately ;-) </div><div><br></div><div>Thomas </div><div><br><div><div>On 03.03.2010, at 12:37, Lukáš Lalinský wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Thomas Post <<a href="mailto:post@equinux.com">post@equinux.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I have some ID3v4 tags with a number as a genre. Now when the taglib parses<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the tag it reads the number and the getter returns the according genre from<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the ID3v1 genres list. But now when I write some tags (without changing the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">genre tag), tag lib writes the genre number to the genre tag. But just the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">number without brackets. The standard describes it with brackets!<br></blockquote><br>It doesn't. You are reading the ID3v2.3 specification. In ID3v2.4 it's<br>just numbers.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Effect: other softwares like iTunes just show the number and not the according<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">genre.<br></blockquote><br>That's a bug in iTunes. It can be worked around, but it would be<br>unfair to blame TagLib.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Now I tried to fix that but I'm not shore if this is the right way. When<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">reading the genre in FrameFactory::updateGenre( convert the genre numbers to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the according genre name and when rendering the Genre frame convert them<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">back to a correct genre number with brackets.<br></blockquote><br>Using parentheses around the numbers would be incorrect according to<br>the ID3v2.4 specification. Not syntactically incorrect, but they would<br>be parsed as textual genres.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Or the other way is that I save the genre number with the brackets in<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the updateGenre method and only convert it to the according text in the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">genre getter.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">An other option would be just convert the number in the beginning to the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">according text and save the text. But with that I would loose localized<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">genres in some applications.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Any suggestions?<br></blockquote><br>Saving textual genres is the best option, if you don't want to break<br>applications that properly support ID3v2.4.<br><br>-- <br>Lukas Lalinsky<br><a href="mailto:lalinsky@gmail.com">lalinsky@gmail.com</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>taglib-devel mailing list<br>taglib-devel@kde.org<br>https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/taglib-devel<br></div></blockquote></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; 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