Re: [Banshee-List] ID3v2.3 tags

[Roderich Schupp <roderich schupp googlemail com>]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Benjamín Valero Espinosa
<benjavalero gmail com> wrote:
>> currently banshee does not support id3 v2.4 in writing or reading. It only
>> does v2.3 as of right now. Support for 2.4 is coming however. I am not sure
>> why your player wouldn't be reading the tags if it supports v2.3.
>
> I'm not sure this is true.

Me neither :) Here's a hex dump of the first view bytes of a MP3 file
that I recently ripped with banshee:

00000000  49 44 33 04 00 00 00 00  16 5d 54 53 53 45 00 00  |ID3......]TSSE..|
00000010  00 15 00 00 03 42 61 6e  73 68 65 65 20 32 2e 31  |.....Banshee 2.1|
00000020  2e 30 20 31 33 31 33 32  38 54 50 45 31 00 00 00  |.0 131328TPE1...|
00000030  0a 00 00 03 4c 6f 73 20  4c 6f 62 6f 73 54 41 4c  |....Los LobosTAL|
00000040  42 00 00 00 0e 00 00 03  54 69 6e 20 43 61 6e 20  |B.......Tin Can |
00000050  54 72 75 73 74 54 49 54  32 00 00 00 0d 00 00 03  |TrustTIT2.......|

The ID3v2 version is in byte 4, ie. immediately after "ID3": 04

In case it matters, I used the Gstreamer LAME encoder.

Cheers, Roderich