Lots of padding bytes added when I add a PrivateFrame

Lukáš Lalinský lalinsky at gmail.com
Wed Dec 9 09:01:45 CET 2009


On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Viraj Mody <virajmody at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an MPEG file with some existing ID3v2 Tags. I want to add my own
> PrivateFrame to the ID3v2 Tags of this file.
> After adding the Frame, I noticed what appear to be several bytes of padding
> after the PrivateFrame I just added. Can someone suggest what might be
> wrong, or provide suggestions on how I avoid these padding bytes from
> bloating my header?

The padding is in the tag, not in the frame. It's a standard way to
avoid the need to resize the file on tag update. There is no way to
disable this functionality.

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Lukas Lalinsky
lalinsky at gmail.com


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