amarok doesn't support id3v2?

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Wednesday 17 August 2011 07:49:13 Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> I made a rather startling discovery tonight while playing with amarok
> 1.4.10 and the id3v2 port.  It seems that if I modify an MP3 files's
> id3 tags in amarok, it deletes any existing id3v2 tags, leaving only
> id3v1 tags on the file (as verified with the id3v2 command line tool).
> 
> This just seems wrong to me.  If I understand correctly, taglib, which
> is used by amarok, does support id3v2, so why isn't amarok taking
> advantage of this facility?
> 
> I rebuilt and reinstalled amarok, just to see if it would make any
> difference, but I'm still seeing the same behavior.
> 
> I also installed and tried the audio/juk port (also one the of KDE3
> multimedia family of packages, and also using taglib), and am seeing the
> same thing there as well.  No id3v2 tags, only id3v1.
> 
> What's up with this?  Anyone?

I suspect taglib uses id3v2.4 whereas id3lib (used by id3v2 port) only
supports id3v2.3.
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