id3v2 genre tagging with numbers

[Scott Paul Robertson]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 08:47:30PM +0200, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> Scott Paul Robertson wrote:
> > So is there a reason not to just tag with the actual string rather than
> > the id3v1.1 genre number? Currently I'm manually resetting TCON with
> > id3v2, and it doesn't feel so clean.
> >   
> 
> I'll probably change it, though admittedly grudgingly.  The main reason 
> it's done using the ID3v1 number is "everybody else does it that way", 
> incidentally including iTunes.  It just happens that they write the 
> field in the ID3v2.3 style (i.e. "(5)" instead of "5") even in ID3v2.4 tags.
> 

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for letting me know. And thanks for the
great library.

Scott

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