Writing id3v2.3 tags

[Ben]

Are you sure? My experience is that iTunes version 4.9 (17) can *not*  
read UTF-16, but can read/write UTF-8. I haven't tried iTunes 5 yet.

On Sep 10, 2005, at 4:16 AM, Lukas Lalinsky wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Scott Wheeler wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if this was actually true in the past, but I got an  
>> iBook last
>> week and the very recently released version (5) works just fine  
>> with ID3v2.4
>> tags created by TagLib.
>>
>
> iTunes can read ID3v2.3/ID3v2.4 only in Latin-1 or UTF-16. It can't  
> read ID3v2.4
> tags with text values encoded using UTF-8.
>
> Btw, I'm using (for my tiny tagger) modified version of TagLib that  
> can write
> also ID3v2.3 tags. I coded it mainly for compatibility with Windows  
> Media Player
> as it can't read 2.4 tags at all. But, I know, you're probably not  
> interested in
> including something like that in TagLib :)
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