Bug#410203: deletes id3 tags when mp3 properties are changed in rhytmbox

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 16:13 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Rhythmbox is not very friendly with respect to id3 tags. When I import
> mp3 in rhythmbox it properly reads the tags and import them in its
> database (as I can see in ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml).
> 
> Then, if I change the properties of some track which corresponds to an
> mp3 file inside rhythmbox (e.g. artist name), the rhythmdb.xml file is
> properly updated, but the tags on the mp3 file are erased! (I checked
> that with 'id3v2 -l').

Hi,

Rhythmbox does not erase tags, but it does only support version 2.4 of
id3v2 tags.

        "This element adds ID3v2 tags to the beginning of a stream using
        the taglib library. More precisely, the tags written are ID3
        version 2.4.0 tags (which means in practice that some hardware
        players or outdated programs might not be able to read them
        properly)."

From
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-good-plugins/html/gst-plugins-good-plugins-id3v2mux.html

If you wish to have support for 2.3 tags, I suggest you reassign this
bug to the libtag1c2a package (this is what Rhythmbox uses to write
tags).

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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