ID3 chunks in WAVE/AIFF files

Lukáš Lalinský lalinsky at gmail.com
Fri Oct 29 18:49:15 CEST 2010


On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Stephen F. Booth <me at sbooth.org> wrote:
> I recently had some users report an issue where the metadata in their WAVE
> files was not showing correctly.  The issue is that TagLib only treats
> chunks of type 'ID3 ' as ID3 tags, whereas dbPowerAmp (and probably other
> programs as well) write the chunks as 'id3 '.  I've attached a patch that
> tests for both chunk types.

I'm not sure if this is the best solution. It will read the tag from
'id3 ', but then write a duplicate 'ID3 '. We should either
consistently use the original chunk ID, or remove existing 'id3 '.

Lukas


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