Windows and ID3v2.4 tags - what I use

[Alan Ezust]

You might want to try "kid3", a GUI front end for both taglib and id3lib.
You can see/change/convert between all 3 versions of id3 tags. I have not
yet tried building it on windows, but there is a pure qt version that does
not require kde.


On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Viraj Mody <virajmody at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you sure Windows Media Player is reading the ID3v2.4 tag? I suspect
> what
> you're seeing is WMP reading ID3v1 tags, not ID3v2.4
> Also, the WMP editor adds data to the ID3v1 tag as far as I could tell...
>
> This is easy to test - just strip out everything but ID3v2.4 tags form your
> mp3 and open it in WMP.
>
> I would love to be wrong about this, but I can't get even the last Windows
> Media Player version to read ID3v2.4...
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: <tpombo at woh.rr.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:17 PM
> To: <taglib-devel at kde.org>
> Cc: "Viraj Mody" <virajmody at gmail.com>
> Subject: Windows and ID3v2.4 tags - what I use
>
> > Windows Media Player 11 (XP/Vista) and Windows Media Player 12 (Win7)
> both
> > support ID3v2.4, in fact they have a decent tag editor built-in.  I have
> > not tested versions prior to 11, so I don't know how well they support
> > v2.4.
> >
> > Windows Media Center on Vista/7 both support ID3v2.4 because they use
> > Media Player internally.  I don't know about Windows XP Media Center
> > Edition.
> >
> > In Windows Vista and Win7, they only component I know of that doesn't
> > support ID3v2.4 is the shell (explorer.exe).  To have tag info displayed
> > in Windows Explorer, you'll need to use ID3v2.3 tags, or older, as you
> > already know.
> >
> > What I do about this:
> > I use taglib to modify my mp3 files, so of course, this converts the tag
> > to v2.4.  To convert it back to v2.3, I use iTunes.  I know that iTunes
> > isn't popular, but it is a really good library manager.  Anyway... Open
> > iTunes, drag the mp3 files/folders into the window, select all,
> > right-click and you can choose to convert the tag to any version you
> want.
> > It rewrites all the files quickly and easily.  When done, select all and
> > delete the files from iTunes.
> >
> > I've done this process on tens of thousands of mp3 files.  It works well.
> > iTunes doesn't add any goofy frames or modify any of the data - it simply
> > converts the tag.
> >
> > Also, iTunes has a great tag editor built-in, and it doesn't change the
> > tag version when editing.  One caveat, if you add artwork using iTunes,
> it
> > will save the picture in PNG format.  PNG is several times larger than
> > JPEG.  Thus making the file much larger than necessary.
> >
> > To summarize my process:
> > 1. Drag questionable mp3 file into iTunes
> > 2. Use iTunes tag editor to update tag info including pictures.  Then
> > remove file from iTunes.
> > 3. Use my taglib app to clean up frames and convert picture to JPEG.  It
> > also rewrites the file to reclaim wasted space.
> > 4. Reload file back into iTunes and convert tag to v2.3
> > 5. Verify Windows Explorer can see all data (it always does).
> >
> > I use iTunes as a tag editor and version converter only.  I am a not an
> > iTunes expert.  I have only used iTunes v8.x and v9.x, so I cannot
> comment
> > on behavior of other versions.
> >
> > I hope my comments were helpful.
> >
> > -Tony
> >
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