Writing ID3v2.3 tags - what do you use?

[Viraj Mody]

I have that patch, and he did send it in, but apparently there were some 
issues with it. My Plan B is to basically do what that patch does, in the 
absence of a better library/tool/suggestion.

Thanks!

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From: "Jim" <jmartin92 at comcast.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 2:22 PM
To: <taglib-devel at kde.org>
Subject: Re: Writing ID3v2.3 tags - what do you use?

> I think back in October there was someone who posted to the list about 
> this very
> topic.  I believe he said that he had already completed his own modified 
> version
> of Taglib that could write 2.3 tags.  He asked if anyone had interest in 
> seeing
> the changes but I don't remember if he posted a link or what happened with 
> that.
>   If you try searching in the list archives for this past October you 
> should be
> able to find the messages and get his contact info.  Or if you can't find 
> it let
> me know and I'll do some digging to see if I can.
>
> Jim
>
> Michael Smith wrote:
>> 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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