On Wednesday 07 October 2009, Adam Williamson wrote:
> taglib is probably the best actively-developed modern alternative.
>
I might not apply to all cases - kid3 for example uses both. Based on a brief
look in the code and
http://kid3.sourceforge.net/kid3_en.html#settings-menu,
id3lib is used for ID3 2.3.0 tags and taglib for 2.4.0 ones, e.g. when
converting from 2.4.0 to 2.3.0. I don't know why though, I'm not sufficiently
familiar with either. Nor am I sure why one would convert from 2.4.0 to
2.3.0, maybe for compatibility reasons with $something. And yes, this is
quite a corner case.
That's odd. Surely a modern ID3 tag program should support all of the
IDv3 formats/versions?
Lyos Gemini Norezel