id3v2 / Bugs / #52 Tag converting to 2.4 not working

#52 Tag converting to 2.4 not working

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Status: closed-invalid

Owner: nobody

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Priority: 5

Updated: 2017-04-05

Created: 2017-04-05

Creator: Pander

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The file has ID3 tags, as easytag can show. However,

$ id3v2 -l filename.mp3
filename.mp3: No ID3 tag

$ id3v2 -C filename.mp3
Converting id3v1 tag to id3v2 in filename.mp3...
id3v2: Success
Tags could not be converted

$ id3v2 -l filename.mp3
filename.mp3: No ID3 tag

Could this please be fixed?

Discussion

Myers Carpenter - 2017-04-05

id3v2 doesn't have idv2 2.4 support as the underlying library it uses id3lib doesn't support 2.4. The -C option is to convert from 2.2 to 2.3 tags. Sorry.

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Myers Carpenter - 2017-04-05

status: open --> closed-invalid

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Pander - 2017-04-05

There are some bug reports and feature requests on this at id3lib. It might help if you also provide some reasons to motivate them to start support it. Thanks.

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Myers Carpenter - 2017-04-05

This project and the id3lib haven't been touched in over a decade. For my own use I've moved on to tools like http://beets.io/ .

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Pander - 2017-04-05

That is not a reason to extend support to 2.4 ;-) Many, many applications use this library.

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Pander - 2017-04-05

A quick investigation shows in base repositories of Debian and Ubuntu respectively 40 and 34 packages depend on the id3 library.

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Pander - 2017-04-05

A selection for Debian is:
easytag
gmtp
minidlna
mixxx
mpd
alsaplayer
audacity
clam
cynthiune.app
easyh10
easytag
gmtp
gnomad2
gtkpod
id3v2
imlib2
intone
iripdb
kid3
kwave
libapache-mod-musicindex
liblicense
libmp3splt
libomxmad
linux-minidisc
madplay
minidlna
mixxx
moc
mp3fs
mpd
mpg321
ocp
poc-streamer
sonic-visualiser
sox
taggrepper
tagtool
vdr-plugin-mp3
imlib2

A selection for Ubuntu is
mp3fs
alsaplayer
audacity
cynthiune.app
easyh10
easytag
gmtp
gnomad2
gtkpod
id3v2
imlib2
intone
kid3
kwave
libapache-mod-musicindex
liblicense
libmp3splt
libomxmad
linux-minidisc
madplay
minidlna
mixxx
moc
mpd
mpg321
mtpfs
ocp
poc-streamer
sonic-visualiser
sox
swac-scan
taggrepper
tagtool
vdr-plugin-mp3

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