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Genre Displayed as number with iTunes - "not a bug" ?

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Lear:

--- Quote from: soap on August 14, 2008, 07:04:57 AM ---Does this happen only when you have only a ID3v1 and not an additional ID3v2 tag?
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This cannot happen with ID3v1 tags, so the answer is no (despite what is mentioned in the bug). It only happens when reading ID3V2 tags that doesn't quite follow the standard.

mhebsacker:
Hi,

I have the problem with iTunes ID3v2.4 Tags, the problem is corrected when I load the MP3 s into MP3Tag and simply press the "save" button (which means MP3Tag rewrites all the tags).

I set up MP3Tag to also use ID3v2.4, so propaply the rewritten tags are simply standard conform where iTunes might write the tags in some non standard way.

But I never investigated the differences.

Anyways, it seems that MP3Tag & rockbox works well. http://www.mp3tag.de/

Matthias

thesavster:
Noticed that I also had a problem with genres showing as numbers. This seemed to be a result of foobar2000, since I used this program to apply ReplayGain to my files, and also manage my ogg files. I saw the following at foobar2000's site:

"MP3 tags (ID3v2) added or modified by foobar2000 are not read or are read improperly in application X or portable player Y. What can I do?

foobar2000 writes ID3v2.4 tags encoded as UTF-8 by default. To deal with broken software/hardware with partial support of the ID3v2 standard, an “ID3v2 writer compatibility mode” has been added ('Preferences → Advanced → Tagging → MP3 → ID3v2 writer compatibility mode'); it results in non-standard-compliant tags being written (ID3v2.3 instead of ID3v2.4, UTF-16, no unsynchronization, no padding), but attempts to dodge known bugs in other ID3v2 implementations."

I followed the directions in the Preferences dialog on foobar2000, rescanned the files, and re-applied the replaygain info to my tags--result, genres all fixed.

I am not very well-versed on the different tagging formats, but it would seem that foobar2000, among others, may have a different idea of standards than Rockbox.

Chronon:
It seems clear to me that they are not complying with the standard on purpose.  This should certainly not be a standard setting for Foobar2k from where I stand.  I use this program to apply replaygain tags too.  I have not noticed any problems with Rockbox.

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