Wrong APIC tag handling in V1.4.5

Mark Kretschmann kretschmann at kde.org
Sat Aug 11 11:21:22 UTC 2007


On 8/11/07, Frank Lautenbach <frank.lautenbach at gmx.de> wrote:
> I guess I found a bug in Amarok:
>
> The tool does not respect APIC tags containing an empty description in
> UTF-16 format (so that the description field consists of just 2 Zero
> Bytes). Amarok just ignores these pictures and shows no cover image for
> the file.
>
> After changing the text type to 0 (ASCII) and removing one of the
> terminating Zero Bytes with a hex-editor it suddenly works.
>
> No other tool has problems with reading the cover image of my files (all
> ID3 V2.3), only Amarok.... So I guess it's a bug....

I would say you have to look at TagLib, not Amarok.

-- 
Mark



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