I'm running Squeezeboxes (Now a Logitech product) to play my music throughout my house. They have excellent support of ID3 v2.4. In particular I like to use TSOP for Artist Sort Order. For tagging purposes I use Mp3tag which has also completely embraced the newer standard.
Most of the time this is no problem for me. I rip using dbPowerAmp (in v2.3) and then up to v2.4 (in mp3tag) as I tweak my tags before adding to my server.
What brought it to my attention again was my desire to add ReplayGain to some of my older files. As I ran it through dbPowerAmp's Batch Converter I lost these fields. In general, since I keep my tags in v2.4, I can't use dbPowerAmp's tools for anything which manipulates my tags.
The id3v2.4 implementation is a bit of a mess, files created in Foobar will not read correctly in iTunes, so if we implemented it the board would fill with exactly that question, there is no issue with 2.3
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