APIC frames added with taglib don't show in Windows Media Player

[Roel]

Hi,

I've written a small program to add picture frames (APIC) to id3v2 tags, 
but the pictures I add don't show up in any media players (I've tried 
Windows Media Player and a tagger called 'Zortam mp3 studio', I don't 
now if Winamp can show the pictures at all). The pictures are there: I 
can put them in, extract them again and they show up fine in any picture 
viewer. It's just that other programs can't see they're there. Has 
anyone had this problem before?

To see where the problem could be, I've prepared two mp3 files: one with 
the picture as added by taglib, the other one with the same picture as 
added by Zortam mp3 Studio. Then I ran the two files through a binary 
diff program and there were only a couple of differences between the 
files, I think in the encoding. I made a screenshot of the binary diff 
and put it in a zip, together with the two files. I put it on 
http://www.stack.be/~roel/mp3aa-test.zip, if anyone has some time to 
take a look at it to check it out. The screenshot of the diff only is on 
http://www.stack.be/~roel/diff.GIF . Anyone with insights in the id3v2 
spec care to have a look and see what they think? To me it seems that 
the problem is that in Taglib-made one, the encoding of the description 
is set to 0x2253 and in the other one 0x114b, but I don't see how they 
get to those values - the only values valid according to the spec are 
0x00001 to 0x0004, but I guess I'm missing something. Thanks.


cheers,

roel