On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 00:01 +0100, Simon Dedman wrote: > Hi all, sorry if this is a stupid question, I've been searching > around & > can only find people having problems about 10 years ago, so maybe > that's > the answer, but just in case: is there any reason why I shouldn't > upgrade > my ID3v2.3 tags to 2.4 when tagging in Kid3? > > Out of interest, is there any BENEFIT in doing so? As a person who has worked on the MusicBrainz Picard tagging tool...
The *only* reason to continue using ID3v2.3 tags is that you expect to use your MP3 files on a Microsoft Windows computer. Windows Media Player and the Windows Explorer properties dialog can only read the 2.3 variant. (Last I checked, this is still the case even in Windows 8.) The ID3v2.4 update fixes some issues relating to handling multiple-value fields (this is important in Picard, since we use them a lot), extends the date field to store more than just the year (although some non-standard tools incorrectly stored full dates in 2.3), and allows the use of UTF-8 text encoding. If all of your applications work with ID3v2.4, I would recommend using it. -- Calvin Walton <calvin.wal...@kepstin.ca> _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
