quodlibet / mutagen

Python module for handling audio metadata

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id3: Handle id3v2.4 files edited by Windows8/10 #192

Open lazka opened 9 years ago

lazka commented 9 years ago

Originally reported by: Christoph Reiter (Bitbucket: lazka, GitHub: lazka)

Windows partly ignores id3v2.4 tags, prepends a new 2.3 tag including some frames of the 2.4 one.

We could:

Ignore the id3v2.3 tag
Use both and prefer frames from the id3v2.3 tag
Ignore the 2.4 tag and at least delete it on save

Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/lazka/mutagen/issue/192

lazka commented 5 years ago

365 has an example file

lazka commented 5 years ago

I'd say read the second tag, update to the version of the first one, then add tags which aren't present in the first one. That likely means most things get downgraded to id3v2.3, but given that it gets edited by Windows that will prevent further corruption. Also we shouldn't advertise v2.4 while the file is "strictly" v2.3.