[MPlayer-users] ID3 tags in mp3 files
D Richard Felker III
dalias at aerifal.cx
Sun Feb 23 17:18:38 CET 2003
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:50:31PM -0000, Andy Low wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi!
>
> Is it me, or does mplayer not recognise ID3-v2 information in mp3 files? Is this related to the issue discussed on this list mplayer 0.90-rc3 a poor mp 3 player?
MPlayer intentionally skips id3v2 tags because parsing them is
error-prone (see all the exploits in players that parse them!) and
they're just a horrible broken 'standard'. You should use id3v1
instead or just put the useful info in the filename/path instead of
tagging (IMHO much better).
Rich
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