Gang,
I have a proposal for adding ID3 version 2 tag support to LAME. Why?
Well, someone asked about it on the mailing list several weeks ago and I
was bored and just wanted to make a contribution again. :-)
Actually, since version 2 tags are normally the first frame of an MPEG
audio stream,
So ... comments? Does anyone not want this feature? How about a
different behavior? Or should I just start typing away now? :-)
I personnally don't use the lame id3 options. But, personnally, I'd like to
have by default both v1 and v2 tags if v2 are necessarry (ie more than 30
char), as
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 11:33:20AM +0200, Gabriel Bouvigne wrote:
So ... comments? Does anyone not want this feature? How about a
different behavior? Or should I just start typing away now? :-)
I personnally don't use the lame id3 options. But, personnally, I'd like to
have by default
Not really. Take a look at my streaming MP3 station on Live365 at
http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=wtgfs
and you'll see the info from the ID3 version 1 tags for all clips.
The server, which of course runs much faster than the internet
connection, simply reads the ID3
Why add version 2 tags at all? Version 1 tags are virtually useless
within streaming audio (since they don't appear until the end of the
stream), so version 2 tag support is essential for that type of
application.
Not really. Take a look at my streaming MP3 station on Live365 at
I guess ID3v2 tag doesn't cause any conflict anywhere... Does it? Is it
possible to keep both version of tags? Then, the programs which do not
support v2 may read the v1 tag... But I guess that'll confuse most of the
players [if not all of them!] because they probably are not specifically
