[PATCH] Re: atomicparsley tagging issue

[James Cook]

On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 21:01:06 +0100, you wrote:


>I don't think it works quite like that.  AtomicParsley puts the ID3 frames inside ID32 atoms in the MP4 tree.  iTunes ignores them - are there other media managers/players that can read those frames?  More esoteric is the fact that atomicparsley apparently only writes ID3v2.4 frames.  I would guess that any app that could read ID3 frames from MP4 trees would also do ID3v2.4, but I have no real clue.
Ah well, my misreading. Still there may be some players out there that
want/can only deal with id3v2 set on m4* files?

>A configuration mechanism is a good idea, but I think it will have be based a full mapping of get_iplayer fields -> MP3 frames -> MP4 atoms.  I've done this for iTunes, and it's pretty straightforward.  I don't think id3v2 can add artwork, but that seems  acceptable unless someone knows of another cross-platform ID3v2 command-line tagger that can insert APIC frames.  
It seems everyone has their own solution, id3v2 is very outdated and
you can't set APIC as you say, as well as ... TDRL for example - so I
doubt if anyone is really using it (?).

Actually its the underlying id3lib which is outdated. 
I have tweaked these two to get some simple tags (TDRL)  working but
not for complex tags. 

I did once see a project to update these libs to newer tags but the
fact i can't find it now on the web shows ... something.

>The alternative would be come up with some sort of integrated tagging plugin, but I'm not sure it's worth the bother.  I've been using mutagen, so I don't know whether the available perl modules are even up to the task.
In the end I use a small perl lib I wrote which uses MP3:Tag. It can
set all the tags I need, including APICs etc. 


JC