Package: id3v2 Version: 0.1.12-1 Severity: normal
Unfortunately, this five year old bug still exists in id3v2. As much as we had hoped the world would have completed its transition to patent free media formats by now (go WEBM!), sadly I was confronted with an mp3 file today and id3v2 couldn't read its the version 2.4 tag. This is something of a problem since another tagging tool called "easytag" will automatically detect outdated tag formats and upgrade them for you. (Not a good feature to have on by default in my opinion, but oh well.) Given the longevity of this bug, I don't think upstream is handling this, so it seems like the solution is to either change the library id3v2 uses (libid3 to libid3tag) or deprecate it in the package description for another command-line id3 editor. Personally, I'd go with deprecating id3v2. There look to be several alternatives already packaged in Debian. I installed one at random called eyeD3 and it had no problem with the v2.4 tag. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages id3v2 depends on: ii libc6 2.11.1-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.4-4 GCC support library ii libid3-3.8.3c2a 3.8.3-13 A library for manipulating ID3v1 a ii libstdc++6 4.4.4-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime id3v2 recommends no packages. id3v2 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
