Genre Numbers in ID3v2.4

[Thomas Post]

Thank's for the details! 

So I go for a non standard but iTunes compatibility solution. I know this is not really sweet but in this case the iTunes compatibility is more important. And once again I can blame iTunes but I'm not sure if it can take it anymore... I had to blame it too much lately ;-) 

Thomas 

On 03.03.2010, at 12:37, Lukáš Lalinský wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Thomas Post <post at equinux.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have some ID3v4 tags with a number as a genre. Now when the taglib parses
>> the tag it reads the number and the getter returns the according genre from
>> the ID3v1 genres list. But now when I write some tags (without changing the
>> genre tag), tag lib writes the genre number to the genre tag. But just the
>> number without brackets. The standard describes it with brackets!
> 
> It doesn't. You are reading the ID3v2.3 specification. In ID3v2.4 it's
> just numbers.
> 
>> Effect: other softwares like iTunes just show the number and not the according
>> genre.
> 
> That's a bug in iTunes. It can be worked around, but it would be
> unfair to blame TagLib.
> 
>> Now I tried to fix that but I'm not shore if this is the right way. When
>> reading the genre in FrameFactory::updateGenre( convert the genre numbers to
>> the according genre name and when rendering the Genre frame convert them
>> back to a correct genre number with brackets.
> 
> Using parentheses around the numbers would be incorrect according to
> the ID3v2.4 specification. Not syntactically incorrect, but they would
> be parsed as textual genres.
> 
>> Or the other way is that I save the genre number with the brackets in
>> the updateGenre method and only convert it to the according text in the
>> genre getter.
>> An other option would be just convert the number in the beginning to the
>> according text and save the text. But with that I would loose localized
>> genres in some applications.
>> Any suggestions?
> 
> Saving textual genres is the best option, if you don't want to break
> applications that properly support ID3v2.4.
> 
> -- 
> Lukas Lalinsky
> lalinsky at gmail.com
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