Writing ID3v2.3 tags - what do you use?

Michael Smith msmith at xiph.org
Tue Dec 15 21:43:30 CET 2009


On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Viraj Mody <virajmody at gmail.com> wrote:
> Windows is pretty bad (incapable, basically) about reading ID3v2.4 tags. I
> want to add a PRIV frame to existing MP3s in a Windows-compatible way so I
> guess I must use ID3v2.3
>
> I know TagLib cannot write ID3v2.3, but do folks here have any suggestions
> for another library that might help? Basically, I want to keep the existing
> tag version and preserve all existing frames, only add a new PRIV frame.
> Something that works on Windows and OSX works best, but I'll take all
> suggestions.

For writing initial ID3 tags to a file I wrote my own ID3 writer as a
GStreamer plugin recently; it can do 2.3 or 2.4

Somewhere on my "when I have infinite spare time" list is adding
support for writing 2.3 to taglib, optionally. It didn't look too hard
to do, but I haven't even started on that.

Mike


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