#34 Duplicate IDTags

[Private Name]

Hey there Great Job on the ID3 Library. This is the First
Open Source Project of many that i have looked over
that i have actually been able to compiler and get
running. It looks great and the instructions were
excellent.

Real Quick Question. I have some MP3 files which
apparently are MPEGLayer II from the MP3Header and
the Tag Program is capable of editing and Creating
Album/artist tags but however Windows Media Player
and Windows Explorer are reading something totally
different. yet most tag editors that i have read the
standard tag that I created.

Is this because it is MPEGlLayer II ? and not 3? is there
any way to edit the other one (the one that nobody can
find - I tried Iterating all the Frames and then for each
frame I would iterate the fields and i kept pulling out all
the information that I could get.

Or is it maybe as simple as just converting all my
mpeglayer 2 music to mpeglayer 3 ?

[T.H.F. Klok]

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Thanx for the nice words :-)

As for your question: I don't think it's an issue of Mpeg II and
III, it might be a difference in id3v1 and id3v2 tags.

Th

[Private Name]

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So is there A Way to pull one and then the Other?
I opened up 2 files (1 that has this problem) and 1 that doesnt
have this problem in a binary editor and I noticed that the
headers were completely differnt. The Ones that were
messed up (or in this case had an alternate Tag that Media
Players were detecting and another one that everybody else
was detecting and setting) - They also had part of their tag at
the end.

[T.H.F. Klok]

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I see. Where they by any chance 2.4 tags? Or was the bit at
the end an v1 tag?
There is a way to parse them seperate, if you create a new
tag, you can use the options of Link() to specify which tags to
parse.

[Spoon]

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If you ask me, Microsoft cannot even read 2.3 tags correctly,
my software dbpoweramp writes 2.3 tags and I get stacks of
complaints from people about how explorer or Media player
cannot read them...

See my other thread about setting the version, I would like to
default to 2.2 but cannot as yet.