Cheers Calvin, I appreciate the intel. Can you (or anybody else) see any reason why it would be a bad idea, therefore, for me to run through my whole collection with Kid3 and upgrade tags to v2.4?
Similarly/additionally any benefit or risk or also stripping out the v1 tags? Thanks again Simon On 27 August 2014 17:40, Calvin Walton <calvin.wal...@kepstin.ca> wrote: > > 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> >
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