Comparing the results of id3tag to the results of taglib: 3 potential bugs

Xavier Duret xavier.duret at caramail.com
Thu Jan 11 13:14:51 CET 2007


> Xavier Duret wrote:
> > taglib svn 621706 reports an incorrect genre ("Blues") for some tracks
> without genre information.
> >   
> 
> That's probably just a bug in the files.  Blues is genre 0 in ID3v1.  If 
> they zero that byte rather than setting it to 0xff (no genre) then it 
> will show up as blues.
> Xavier Duret wrote:
> > taglib svn 621706 reports an incorrect genre ("Blues") for some tracks
> without genre information.
> >   
> 
> That's probably just a bug in the files.  Blues is genre 0 in ID3v1.  If 
> they zero that byte rather than setting it to 0xff (no genre) then it 
> will show up as blues.
This is the ID3 tag at the start of one of the files. This is an ID3v2.3.0 tag as far as I can tell.
0000:0000 49 44 33 03 00 00 00 00 08 59 54 52 43 4b 00 00 ID3......YTRCK.


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