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Redhat 8.0 & Mp3
Calum:
quote:Originally posted by Ice9:
Which version do you use?
Mine is 1.2.6 and it doesn't support it.
Don't know what it's good for though, what do the id3v2 tags do?
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id3v1 tags contain six fields of text which can contain info about who the mp3 is by and what it's called et c. The fields are of limited size. id3v2 has more fields and they can be longer. XMMS reads id3v2 tags but will only write id3v1 tags, which means that if you edit a tag, xmms will still display the old info and there's nothing you can do about it. this really pisses me of. Why they have not fixed it i do not know. perhaps it is because xmms is only a frontend for mpg123? maybe it only supports id3v1?
anyway, if nobody knows the answer then i would rather not hog this topic since it is actually about red hat and copy protection.
Ice-9:
Well, I installed the plugin for RH 8.0 and took a look at the file info while playing an mp3, version 1.2.7 of Xmms still doesn' support id3v2 tags apparently.
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by Calum:
id3v1 tags contain six fields of text which can contain info about who the mp3 is by and what it's called et c. The fields are of limited size. id3v2 has more fields and they can be longer. XMMS reads id3v2 tags but will only write id3v1 tags, which means that if you edit a tag, xmms will still display the old info and there's nothing you can do about it. this really pisses me of. Why they have not fixed it i do not know. perhaps it is because xmms is only a frontend for mpg123? maybe it only supports id3v1?
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Calum, if you can't edit your id3v2 tags within any of your graphical players have you tried this?
It's a little more trouble than doing it right in the player but it looks like you should be able to add/modify the id3v2 tags with this utility.
Hope this helps.
voidmain:
And a note about getting id3v2 to work. You'll need id3lib. If you are on the new RedHat which comes with gcc v3.2 you'll need to get the id3lib-stable from CVS at http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/ in order to get it to compile. The tar.gz file will not work as it is incompatible with gcc v3.2.
Also if you do a default "configure;make;make install" from the CVS source it will install in /usr/local/lib which means you need to add "/usr/local/lib" to /etc/ld.so.conf if it isn't already in there and then run /sbin/ldconf. Then you will be able to compile the id3v2 utility. I just used it and it seems to work just fine.
[ October 06, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
flap:
quote:Originally posted by Calum:
anyway, if nobody knows the answer then i would rather not hog this topic since it is actually about red hat and copy protection.
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not to be pedantic, but the mp3 issue is actually about software patents, not copy protection.
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