MP3 Year tag

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Gale Andrews
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MP3 Year tag

Post by Gale Andrews » Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:23 pm

On Ubuntu, the year tag in MP3s exported from Audacity is not seen in applications like Rhythmbox or MoviePlayer. This is easily fixable by using ID3_FRAME_YEAR in line 1868 of ExportMP3.cpp instead of the deprecated "TYER" frame which we use for backwards compatibility with Windows applications.

We could still use TYER for Windows, but can anyone who compiles SVN HEAD on other Linux distributions try compiling with ID3_FRAME_YEAR and advise if that breaks MP3 tags in any applications?



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Re: MP3 Year tag

Post by bgravato » Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:04 am

The only relevant tags for me are artist and song title. So to me it won't break anything :)
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Re: MP3 Year tag

Post by bgravato » Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:16 am

Gale, one tool you could test and see if it works is eyeD3. It's a command line id3 tag editor and it's what I use for editing id3 tags on my mp3s. Should be on ubuntu.
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