[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCHv2] flac: ignore IDv3 tags if vorbis tags exist

wm4 nfxjfg at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 3 14:57:56 CET 2015


On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 01:10:11 +0100
Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 06:49:11PM -0500, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> > FLAC doesn't really support IDv3 tags, so warn if they are found at all.
> > If vorbis tags are found, toss out the IDv3 tags. They are kept if
> > vorbis tags aren't found to at least have something there.
> 
> I'm not really convinced this makes sense.
> There are thousands of programs that can edit IDv3 tags, but
> comparatively few that can handle vorbis tags.
> If both exist, why should the Vorbis tags be more likely to
> be correct?
> The warnings I sure agree with though.

Any suggestions how we should handle mp3? mp3 can have the following
tags (from what I've found out so far): id3v1, id3v2, ape, lyrics.
Currently, only the id3 ones are read (v1 is dropped if v2 exists).


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