Someone please fix the 30-character bug

[Mats Ahlgren]

On Saturday 10 February 2007 14:32:59 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> Sounds like after the first time you guys save the ID3v2 tag is not being 
> saved, and only the ID3v1 tag is there, which can only handle 30 or 31 chars.  
> Then when you edit it again the ID3v2 tag is saved properly.
Interesting. I thought Martin's comment implied that tags weren't being written anymore to files themselves?
Regardless, I've had some files for which this has happened more than once, even after correction...

> If you're on Gentoo I'd recommend using TagLib SVN from the kde overlay.  
> Taglib SVN does have a bunch of fixes when dealing with MP3 metadata and it 
> could be you're hitting one of these bugs.  One day perhaps TagLib 1.5 will 
> come out...
My taglib version: 1.4-47 -- incase that helps anyone diagnose the problem

> Also, do make absolutely sure you're not running TagLib 1.3 or earlier.
Thanks for the input. Hope someone fixes this...

--Mats
> --Jeff
> 
> On Saturday 10 February 2007, Niklas Nylund wrote:
> > Can't give any specifics to point out what is causing this but I've
> > seen the same kind of tag corruption happening to my files also.
> >
> > Niklas
> >
> > On Feb 10, 2007, at 6:02 PM, Gleb Litvjak wrote:
> > > Happened to me too recently. I'm not sure what's triggering it.
> > > Seems that
> > > only certain files are affected. To me it happens when I edit tags
> > > of such a
> > > file and save. After I edit it again, the problem seems to go away.
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