Hello, I heard from a coworker that there was something that changed recently with FLAC and ID3. I don't have ANY details on what that means, and was wondering what has changed. The only thing I see (in the changelog) is that plugins have removed support for ID3 tags. I'm curious because I have been using ID3 tags with FLAC (I store extra data such as album art with my media files, and ID3v2 tags allow me to do so). Will this continue to be OK, or is 1.1.1 breaking that compatibility? Not that I like ID3v2 or anything, it's not very pleasant to work with. Thanks in advance, Ron
--- Ron Cococcia <ron.cococcia@request.com> wrote:> Hello, > > I heard from a coworker that there was something that changed > recently > with FLAC and ID3. I don't have ANY details on what that means, and > was > wondering what has changed. The only thing I see (in the changelog) > is > that plugins have removed support for ID3 tags. > > I'm curious because I have been using ID3 tags with FLAC (I store > extra > data such as album art with my media files, and ID3v2 tags allow me > to > do so). Will this continue to be OK, or is 1.1.1 breaking that > compatibility? Not that I like ID3v2 or anything, it's not very > pleasant to work with.ID3 support was only dropped in the plugins. libFLAC still can decode FLAC files that have ID3 tags (v1 or v2). it just ignores them and there are no plans to change that in the future. the spec still does not require compliant implementations to support ID3 on FLAC, so other apps may choke. unless you're really tied to ID3 for some reason it's safer to migrate. are you using it for something that FLAC metadata doesn't have? Josh __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
> ID3 support was only dropped in the plugins. libFLAC still can > decode FLAC files that have ID3 tags (v1 or v2). it just ignores > them and there are no plans to change that in the future.OK, that's what I thought, but wanted to be sure. I've been updating some metadata handling routines in our application and heard something about this and was curious.> the spec still does not require compliant implementations to > support ID3 on FLAC, so other apps may choke. unless you're > really tied to ID3 for some reason it's safer to migrate. > are you using it for something that FLAC metadata doesn't > have?Besides the album art data (JPG files which are currently stored in ID3v2 APIC tags), everything else can be stored as vorbis comments. Since I haven't kept myself up-to-date with FLAC, were there things added recently to it that might support this? I have the application update both ID3 and vorbis comments when metadata changes. It became a problem because of a compatibility issue between versions of our application, where the older versions don't look at the vorbis comments at all. If ID3 tags were to become unusable on FLAC files there might have been some extra work to do on my end (which isn't really a big deal). Thanks Josh!