Comments chopped at 28 chars

[Leif B. Kristensen]

On Wednesday 28. May 2008, Ian Monroe wrote:
>On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Leif B. Kristensen 
<leif at solumslekt.org> wrote:
>> However, I'm becoming increasingly annoyed about the tag handling in
>> Amarok. I just discovered that comments that I input are being
>> chopped at 28 characters.

>Do you see the cut-off in Amarok?

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.
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