Issue copying IDv2 TCON frames with a v1 genre reference

[patrick machielse]

Op 13 nov 2009, om 23:00 heeft Lukáš Lalinský het volgende geschreven:

>> TCON (42)
>> 
>> When copied to a new v2 tag, the frame is written out like this:
>> 
>> TCON 42
>> 
>> Which is interpreted as a custom genre "42".
> 
> It shouldn't be interpretted as a genre "42" by TagLib or any
> application that supports ID2v2.4. The conversion it does is correct
> -- TCON with a value "(42)" is the way to write ID3v1-style genres in
> ID3v2.3, "42" is the way to do it in ID3v2.4. Writing "(42)" to a
> ID3v2.4 frame would be incorrect (TagLib can only write ID3v2.4 tags).

Blast, it seems you're right. I only looked up the v2.3 specs... So, in sum: TagLib is doing the right thing and iTunes (latest version) seems to map numeric values in 2.4/TCON incorrectly (or not at all).

Mike wrote:

> Note that itunes can't handle v2.4-style numeric genres. Taglib, as of
> 1.6 I think, won't write out a numeric genre ever (well, unless you
> disable the itunes hacks), it'll always expand them to the string
> form.

Hmm, I'll submit a report to Apple's bugreporter. Well, it can't hurt...

I'm building my own TagLib framework, but I've done nothing special to disable the iTunes hacks. Or should I actively enable them? I'll look into it.

Thanks,
patrick
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