ID3 comment language not preserved

[nab128]

When I convert MP3 files I noticed that the three bytes in the ID3 tag indicating the comment language are replaced with nulls. i.e. if you had an English comment the language code would be 65 6E 67 (eng) but after conversion it is 00 00 00.

Most programs don't seem to care but Windows Explorer does! It won't show the comments of a converted file or at least reverts to showing the truncated v1.1 tag comment if available.

It would be nice if the language code was preserved.

BTW thank you all for awesome software dbPowerAmp!

[Spoon]

Re: ID3 comment language not preserved

Try with the R12 alpha, does that help?

[nab128]

Re: ID3 comment language not preserved

Just got around to trying this and unfortunately no r12 final doesn't help.

I was hoping the language code would be preserved when converting. In fact if the whole tag could be preserved and not interfered with that would be great. I have files with comments in up to 6 different languages and when converted all that is left is the English comment (first occurring of 6 in tag) with no language code. It seems Windows needs the language code in order to display the comment properly in Explorer.

Other things I noticed when converting:

- if the artist field is blank dMC will put the composer name in there.

- dMC corrupts iTunes comment frames. For example the volume normalisation comment frame (ITUNENORM), dMC converts to a regular text frame (TXXX).

but the main problem for me is the language code.


thank you for any help you can give me with this.

[Spoon]

Re: ID3 comment language not preserved

Currently we do not handle multiple languages in the same tag, it is planned but the implementation is probabbly quite awhile off.

[nab128]

Re: ID3 comment language not preserved

OK thanks Spoon,

But is it possible to handle single comments by preserving the language code? or at least put in "xxx" so windows explorer can recognise it?

Otherwise I have to double process everything by re-writing tags with Mp3tag :cry:

[Spoon]

Re: ID3 comment language not preserved

Our tag routines need to be able to handle parallel id tags with a language code, they will not at the moment, it is no small fix.

[nab128]

Re: ID3 comment language not preserved

Spoon

Could you at least default the language code to "eng" or "xxx" instead of null characters please?

Windows Explorer and other programs will ignore the id3v2 comment and will default to displaying the id3v1 comment if they find an invalid language code.

[Spoon]

Re: ID3 comment language not preserved

Our tagging library does not allow for this (AFAIK), for R13 we will change libraries.