Hello, Depending on the tagging program, ID3V1, fixed length tags are padded with trailing whitespace or with NULLs. Recent versions of lame (e.g., 3.96.1) pad with NULLs, but old lame versions, as well as recent mp3info (e.g., 0.8.4) yield blank-padding.
Possibly existing padding is ignored by taglib. For many applications that read ID3v1 tags using taglib, this leads to an annoying non-uniform presentation of tag contents depending on which tagging software was used for the different tunes. More specifically, we've found this behaviour in our linux-karma applications, libkarma, lkarmafs and the amarok and banshee rio-karma plugins (see http://linux-karma.sourceforge.net/). While removing trailing whitespace is quite trivial and has been included in these applications, by default, it is clearly worth getting rid of trailing whitspace for all applications. Therefore, we think it suould be implemented in taglib. Regards, EV. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ linux-karma-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-karma-devel
