# ID3v2.4 vs. ID3v2.3

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/id3v2-4-vs-id3v2-3/10405
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 8, 2010, 10:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/id3v2-4-vs-id3v2-3/10405 "2010-05-08T10:21:11Z")
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### Author: ![dikiz](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@dikiz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dikiz)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2010, 10:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/id3v2-4-vs-id3v2-3/10405/1 "2010-05-08T10:21:11Z")

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What are the main differences between **ID3v2.4 UTF-8** and **ID3v2.3 UTF-16**?

Which one is "standard"? Which one is the most recent? Which one handle the most characters? Which one should I chose?  
 ![:music:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/2ba05d1ade5eb0d15fc173be6f717dbe63890a70.gif ":music:")

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### Author: ![mjcm](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@mjcm](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mjcm)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2010, 10:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/id3v2-4-vs-id3v2-3/10405/2 "2010-05-08T10:29:55Z")

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This should help a little

[What ID3v2 tag to use?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3181/4)

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### Author: ![dikiz](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@dikiz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dikiz)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2010, 10:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/id3v2-4-vs-id3v2-3/10405/3 "2010-05-08T10:42:52Z")

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Thanks for the link. It was 4-year old btw, so I still wondering:

Does last.fm scrobble now ID3v2.4 tags?  
Do all players support now ID3v2.4 tags?  
Do all new mp3 devices support ID3v2.4 tags?

and most important:  
What standard support the most "foreign" characters?

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### Author: ![mjcm](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@mjcm](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mjcm)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2010, 11:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/id3v2-4-vs-id3v2-3/10405/4 "2010-05-08T11:19:03Z")

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> [@dikiz](#):
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> ....  
> and most important:  
> What standard support the most "foreign" characters?

I have Thai songs (with Thai Characters) in my iTunes library and I tag them with Mp3tag as  
ID3v2.3 UTF-16 and they are read by iTunes and Foobar.  
Don't know about the other Mplayers because I don't use them 😉

Edit:  
iPod's don't read these characters but that's an Apple Issue and not an Mp3tag one.

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### Author: ![ptrk.mj](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ptrk.mj/32/300_2.png) [@ptrk.mj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ptrk.mj)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/id3v2-4-vs-id3v2-3/10405/5 "2010-05-08T18:27:07Z")

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> [@dikiz](#):
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> Does last.fm scrobble now ID3v2.4 tags?

Last.fm does not scrobble by itself so if your player is capable of reading ID3v2.4 tags then you'll get your tracks scrobbled.

> [@dikiz](#):
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> Do all players support now ID3v2.4 tags?  
> Do all new mp3 devices support ID3v2.4 tags?

Certainly not.

> [@dikiz](#):
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> What standard support the most "foreign" characters?

Both support characters from the whole Unicode (about 100k which is far enough 🙂). It's just the matter of encoding.

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/id3v2-4-vs-id3v2-3/10405/6 "2026-02-09T12:22:22Z")

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