Perfect.  Thanks for the responses.

On 12/27/06, Alex Lancaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>> "JR" == John Russell  writes:
>
> JR> Frequently on this mailer when asked about tag editing people have
> JR> recommended easytag which I have used succssfully for a long time.
> JR> Great app.  However, now that RB has tag editing I like to use
> JR> that from time to time.
>
> I wish people would *not* recommend easytag for exactly that reason.
>
> JR> However, I just noticed that if a tag is edited in RB, or any
> JR> gstreamer tag editing using app, the tag is not readable by either
> JR> easytag or any id3lib 3.8.3 utility.  I believe that easytag uses
> JR> id3lib 3.8.3.
>
> JR> I googled around and found something about how gstreamer writes
> JR> id3 V2.4 tags and that some apps can't read them.  Is that the
> JR> issue here?  Is there any way to get them to play together?
>
> That's exactly the problem.  Easytag relies on id3lib which is dead
> upstream and only reads up to id3v2.3.  Solutions are to:
>
> 1) Upgrade id3lib to read id3v2.4 tags (unlikely)
>
> 2) Upgrade easytag to use taglib (another maintained backend that
>    reads/writes id3v2.4).  It looks there are plans in the works to do
>    that, but don't know the timeline, but the last discussion of it
>    was a while ago [1]
>
> 3) Use a id3v2.4 compliant tag editor like exfalso from quodlibet (it
>    also uses taglib) [2]
>
> I recommend (3), it's actually a much better tagger all round than
> easytag.
>
> Alex
>
> [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=36327233
> [2] http://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet
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