Re: [SoX-users] Comment ID3 tag not read

[Nicolas G. <ni...@gr...>]

Thanks very much for your detailed answer.

I can wait for the next sox_ng release in May, no hurry. :)

In the project on which I am working, which uses SoX as a backend, I use
comments to store application-specific data into MP3 files. I now have
two options: either tell users to run sox_ng instead of sox, or write my
own function to read COMM tags directly from the file without relying on
SoX.

Keep up the good work on sox_ng!

Nicolas

SoX NG <so...@fa...> wrote on 2025-04-24 11:30:
> On 23/04/25 15:30, Nicolas Graner wrote:
>> it seems that SoX cannot read a "Comment" ID3 tag in an MP3 file, even
>> though it can create one. Is this a known issue?
>
> Thanks for reporting this. Yes, reading comments turns out not to work
> in all versions of sox based on 14.4.2 because Comments are encoded
> in a different way from all other tags and 14.4.2 handles them all the 
> same way.