Re: First time using Easy-Tag questions

[Chris <cpollock embarqmail com>]

On Sat, 2014-08-09 at 08:47 +0800, Weiwu Zhang wrote:
> 2014-08-09 8:05 GMT+08:00 Chris <cpollock embarqmail com>:
> > Got it, thanks. One other question, if a file name is in red what does
> > it mean?
>
> This is a second question, you can do better by starting a new email.
> One topic per email is better:)
>
> But it also is an old question, I guess. I am a newcome myself and I
> digged this out of email archives:
>
> > This version supports MP3 tag version 2.4 instead of 2.3.
> > So, if it found an old version of tag, it proposes to you to upgrade (by saving) to the new version. \
> > If you don't want this, you could disable "convert old tag" in the preferences window.
>
> I think this is a design fault. It is counter-intuitive. Besides,
> there are good reasons to stay with 2.3: my portable MP3 player, for
> example, only support MP3Tag up to 2.3 and they don't release a
> firmware to recognize 2.4 because too few 2.4 files are there. The
> only good reason to force upgrade ID3 tag is that it contains
> characters outside of ASCII while it uses a version of ID3 that
> doesn't support these characters.
>
> The developers may chose to force upgrade on saving because writing
> tag in the same version of how it was stored may present a software
> development challange that the project doesn't have resource to
> overcome (or have better things to do).
You're right, should have made it a new question, thanks for the
information though. I think I'd better dig through the archives in the
next few days to see what I can glean from them.

Chris


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