[Lame-dev] [ lame-Bugs-3463197 ] 3.99.x problem WFED and PCST frames

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Bugs item #3463197, was opened at 2011-12-20 21:23
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Category: Misc
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Philippe (philippe44ca)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: 3.99.x problem WFED and PCST frames

Initial Comment:
Switching from 3.98.x to 3.99.x (great for UTF16 support), but WFED frames are not properly written anymore  (cannot be re-read by mp3tag, for example - claiming that id3v2 hear is incorrect) and PCST (itunes PODCAST) is not accepted anymore (says that PCST is not a valid frame). WIll try to have a look at the code, but this is my first dig into lame, so need to find what's happening in id3.c / id3.h
Platform Win7 64 bits

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>Comment By: Philippe (philippe44ca)
Date: 2012-01-01 18:20

Message:
Add my patch

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Comment By: Philippe (philippe44ca)
Date: 2011-12-29 00:13

Message:
I've finally made 2 patches, one to allow --tv frames to badded but no T or
W frames, anything else. This is only accepted with the
--ignore-tags-errors flag. For the WFED, in fact to work (and be recognized
by itunes and mp3tag), it must be encoded as a T field, although it is a W
frame. By default, it was encoded as an ISO8859 frame as W frames should
always be, but that does not work when UTF16 is choosen for other T fields.
Last thing, I had to test for divide / 0 error in calc_noise, was causing a
fatal error. Hope this helps somebody :-)

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Comment By: Robert Hegemann (robert)
Date: 2011-12-28 02:22

Message:
Btw, adding WFED URL frames does work. The problem seems to be, APPLE
doesn't  care about ID3 definition for URL frames and expects it to be a
text frame (that's what I got after reading the info from the links you
provided). If PCST is a regular text frame, then it's quite easy to add
that to the list of text frames.

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Comment By: Philippe (philippe44ca)
Date: 2011-12-28 01:42

Message:
So, after getting able to re-compile lame under C++Builder (that was a
pain, but I "used" to be BCC developer ...) I can confirm that by doing the
following change

if (isFrameIdMatching(frame_id, FRAME_ID('T', 0, 0, 0))
      ||isFrameIdMatching(frame_id, FRAME_ID('W', 0, 0, 0))
      ||isFrameIdMatching(frame_id, FRAME_ID('P', 'C', 'S', 'T')))

it adds a frame using the id3v2_add_ucs2(gfp->internal_flags, frame_id, 0,
0, text);

and that works

I have not added an entry in the MiscID enum like ID_PCST = FRAME_ID('P',
'C', 'S', 'T') b/c I think this is not a multiframe ID so it is probably
not needed to test that elsewhere 

NB : I'm wondering if it would not be "nicer" to let users play with --tv
option and just let them add frames they want (ie no test at all, rather
than doing all sort of customs in id3tag_set_textinfo_utf16. Maybe it
sounds ugly, but that would work well (sorry, I've not developper for years
and I'm new to ID3 tags structure, so maybe I'm messing things up here)

As far as WFED are concerned, I've not investigated yet but assuming they
are "almost" regular URLs Wxxx, should be easy to change - I'll see that
tomorrow

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Comment By: Philippe (philippe44ca)
Date: 2011-12-27 21:26

Message:
Probably statement of the obvious when you know the code, but I had a quick
look and custom frames other than TXXX and WXXX are blocked in this
function, in id3tag.c

id3tag_set_textinfo_latin1(lame_global_flags * gfp, char const *id, char
const *text)

BTW, when force to use latin1 encoding --id3v2-latin1, lame ends with a
fatal error (32 and 64 bits versions)


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Comment By: Philippe (philippe44ca)
Date: 2011-12-23 22:30

Message:
These threads might help 
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/928786
https://github.com/judwhite/IdSharp/pull/1

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Comment By: Philippe (philippe44ca)
Date: 2011-12-23 22:23

Message:
These are iTunes specific frames, unfortunately. Seems that they were both
supported in the version of id3tag.c previously used (I had a quick look at
the source). PCST stands for PODCAST for iTunes and seems to be a boolean.
With that set, itunes will recognize the track as a podcast. WFED stands
for PODCASTURL and is obviously the URL of the podcast. ITunes uses it to
differentiate different podcasts. Without them, it becomes impossible to
add podcast tracks to iTunes (of course unless you let itunes grab them,
but I don't do that b/c I have a complicated automated process for podcat
download + title web scraping + compression before I re-inject them to
iTunes). I will search for a description of these frames, but for example
they are recognized by apps like mp3tag

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Comment By: Robert Hegemann (robert)
Date: 2011-12-21 02:20

Message:
Hi Philippe, WFED and PCST frames aren't listed on ID3.org as version 2.3
tags. Do you have a link to where they are described? Is PCST a normal text
frame like TALB?

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