Writing any genres

[Eivind Magnus Hvidevold]

On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 11:32:35PM +0200, Rene Maurer wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am using python-taglib and it is not possible for me to write my own
> genre tag to a mp3 file.
> 
> Here's what I am doing:
> 
> ,----
> | genre = "blabla"
> | track = TagLib.FileRef(inputFileAndPath)
> | track.tag().setGenre(genre)
> | track.save()
> `----
> 
> Result: No genre tag is written. In case I am using one of the
> 'standard' tags (e.g. Blues, Rock) everything works well.
> 
> Is this a problem of the python bindings or anything else (ID3v1/v2)?
ID3v1 tags contain an index into a fixed set of genres. 
Use ref = MPEGFile(file) and tag = ref.ID3v2Tag(true).

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