I'm using Kid3 because it shows extended tags that mp3tag doesn't, but one other thing I noticed for the same songs is that Kid3 is reporting some songs as MPEG-1 Audio Layer 1 while Mp3tag is reporting it as MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, so I'm at a loss to figure out which program is showing the correct information.
In fact Mp3tag doesn't show any MP3 I have in my collection as MPEG-1 Audio Layer 1 while Kid3 does. Since I see this difference in Kid3 I tend to believe it's showing something Mp3tag isn't.
Here are some screenshots:
Kid3 showing a song as MPEG-1 Audio Layer 1
Mp3tag showing the same song as MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3
Well, Layer I would be *.mp1. Do you recall encoding something using such an ancient encoder? Hell, I don't even know where you could download a Layer I encoder.
Probably just some dumb encoder messed up the header bits … have seen this more often than not with stuff downloaded from the net, even from »supposed good« sources. Older iTunes encoders had this problem, just experienced it with the »The Damnwells - One Last Century« download
This one has really messed-up header bits (specifying wrong Emphasis, layer and such) though Mp3tag (correctly) shows them as MPEG 1 Layer III files. »Eat-all players« like Winamp will even play these, though one might stumble over programs like MixMeister BPM Analyzer or Rapid Evolution 2 which won’t handle these corrupt files.
