On Apr 7, 2010, at 1:54 AM, patrick machielse wrote:
Don't use that, it is no longer up to date. It was a valiant attempt at ID3 support, but it doesn't adhere to the ID3 specifications very well and it stumbles on real world tags more often than other solutions do.
Yeah; after running into some bugs, and looking through the source code, I decided I wasn't comfortable letting it rewrite MP3 files. It's all too easy to imagine a bug in the code destroying files, which would make me and/or hypothetical end-users very sad.
TagLib adheres strictly to the ID3 standard but by default it uses workarounds for the instances when iTunes doesn't... It is also very stable, actively developed, it's covered by a usable license (lgpl), supports more tags than just ID3, and there's a development mailing list. What more do you want?
Interesting! Does it support AAC files? (Those don't use ID3, they use QuickTime 'atoms' for the same purpose.)
FYI to the OP: If you haven't worked with LGPL code before, be aware that you must build it into a separate dynamic library or framework that you can bundle inside your app. Statically linking the code into your app violates the LGPL license, unless you also release your entire app under the LGPL. (Unfortunately this makes using LGPL code in iPhone apps virtually impossible, but that's probably not an issue in this case...)
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