I recently bought a new album and went to update the tags using MP3Tag. I noticed that this time saving the changes did not add APE tags. I've always used ID3v2.3 (ID3v1, ID3v2.3, APEv2), but this latest album defaulted to ID3v2.3 (ID3v1, ID3v2.3). I'm not too concerned because it hasn't affected my…

Unfortunately, there is no "general standard for players these days". It depends only on YOUR players. The one in your car, in your appartement, your mobile phone and so on. I would say: For most .mp3 files, you don't need APE** tags. But again, it really depends on your devices. ** The APEv1 ta…

That's not completely true. If you're using mp3 you should know. ID3v1/ID3v2 was first tagging format for mp3 and designed to work with mp3 (uses synsafe int values to avoid interpretation as audiodata). APE was introduced by Monke's much more later and is NOT SUPPORTED for most Audioplayers (Sof…

Interesting. As far as I can tell it doesn't cause any problems at the moment, but I'll bear it in mind if I start to get any. Thanks.

And there is also the issue of some players not being able to displaying data from every tag field, even the legit ones An example from my own experience: [image] Mapping of tag fields - is it really needed at all? Support [ I also posted a version of this post on the Wi…

Bear in mind that tools like mp3gain, foobar2000 and liquidsoap do store ReplayGain values in APEv2 tags in MP3 files. I’d still recommend getting rid of APEv2 and ID3v1 tags in MP3s, and use other tools like loudgain for replaygaining or foobar2000 with APEv2 tag writing disabled.

Which tag format to use?

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Zerow September 20, 2019, 8:01pm 5

And there is also the issue of some players not being able to displaying data from every tag field, even the legit ones

An example from my own experience: