FLAC tags

[Jeff Mitchell]

Stuart Neill wrote:
> On Friday 19 September 2008 15:35:18 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>> Eddie Armstrong wrote:
>>> Hi Stuart
>>>
>>>> Perhaps you could indicate how you are applying  and editing tags at
>>>> present.
>>>>
>>>> Just as a cheeky aside, one of the Amarok2 devs might note that the tag
>>>> "Disc Number" had been forgotten about when sorting the playlist.
>>> I know Amarok can edit tags - i am referring to non existent tag fields
>>> which would be a boon to cataloguers of music if they existed. I use
>>> Amarok and EasyTag for Tagging.
>> Beware.  EasyTag uses the unmaintained id3lib library, which does not
>> support ID3v2.4, which has been the current version of ID3 since 2000.
>> As such EasyTag will write ID3v2.3 files (which Amarok can read), but
>> Amarok writes ID3v2.4 files, which will cause EasyTag and other
>> non-modern programs to complain that there is no ID3 tag in the file.
>>
> Could you just clarify this for me a little as I sometimes use EasyTag. My 
> understanding is that this problem would only apply to. mp3 fiiles but not to 
> .ogg or .flac files as those are typically tagged with ogg vorbis comments. I am 
> a little unsure of this, as I seem to recall having files with both sets of 
> tags at one time before stripping away the ID3's.
> 
> Are are you aware of any issues regarding the use of EasyTag to edit vorbis 
> comments in .flac's or .ogg's ? 

No, only MP3 files use ID3 tags.  (And a couple other really random
formats.)

--Jeff