[X] Possible Bug with Bitrates

[goofydave]

I believe I have found a bug with bitrates.

I use the mIRC chat client with a script that uses a command $mp3($file).bitrate to display in text the bitrate of the particular mp3.

If I play an mp3 without having touched it with mp3tag 2.33 It displays the bitrate correctly.

Once i take the mp3 into mp3tag and change the ID3 tags and then play the mp3 in mIRC again I get an incorrect bitrate displayed even though Winamp tells me the mp3 is infact still 192kbps

I have also downloaded the dev builds 2.33a and 2.33b without success.

I went back to 2.32 and changed the ID3 with it and the problem does not occur

[Florian]

Why do people post on the forum and contact me by email on the same issue - I don't get it...

Does Winamp or another program also show different bitrates after files being saved with Mp3tag?

If not, it's a bug with mIRC, otherwise please send me the original file and the modified one for analyzing. My guess is, that mIRC fails badly on Unicode tags - so you might want to enable Always write ISO-8859-1 tags instead of UTF-16 at Options > Tags > Mpeg.

~ Florian

[goofydave]

Why do people post on the forum and contact me by email on the same issue - I don't get it...

Does Winamp or another program also show different bitrates after files being saved with Mp3tag?

If not, it's a bug with mIRC, otherwise please send me the original file and the modified one for analyzing. My guess is, that mIRC fails badly on Unicode tags - so you might want to enable Always write ISO-8859-1 tags instead of UTF-16 at Options > Tags > Mpeg.

~ Florian

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I apologise for posting here and emailing, first time here and I didn't see there was an International Section until I posted an email to you.

Always write ISO-8859-1 tags instead of UTF-16 seems to have fixed the problem for me.

I have already sent the email reply with the files attached.

I understand the option was not there in 2.32
1 question if I may, why did this not happen in v2.32 but causes a problem in v2.33?

[Florian]

I'll mark this as "No Bug".

1 question if I may, why did this not happen in v2.32 but causes a problem in v2.33?

Mp3tag 2.33 writes tags in Unicode format by default now (which is perfectly valid, recommended and specified by the ID3v2 standard).<

Some programs have still problems with reading tags in Unicode format, so I've added the option to write tags as ISO-8859-1 instead.

Regards,
~ Florian

[goofydave]

Ok thanks for that.
I wasn't aware of that.