Magnus Brading
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Posted: Sep. 07 2004,14:56 |
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Ok, I've analyzed the file, and the situation is as follows:
Neither the ID3v1 nor the ID3v2 tag of your file contains any album info. There is a Lyrics3 tag added to the ID3v1 tag though, which contains this info.
Lyrics3 is a tag format that was created partly to compensate some shortcomings in the ID3v1 format, but was never really widely spread, and since ID3v2 fixed all these shortcomings it got even more forgotten. It is a quirk of Winamp to display Lyrics3 info as ID3v2 info, and it is an incorrect classification.
Mp3/Tag Studio does not support Lyrics3 tags, and that's why this album info is not displayed in Mp3/Tag Studio.
Regarding your question about where the tag info is stored, ID3v1 info is stored in the very end of the file, and ID3v2 info is stored in the very beginning. When trimming files with Mp3/Tag Studio, all tag data is retained though, no matter which end you cut off. The problem in this case was that Lyrics3 info is stored in the end of the file, just before the ID3v1 info, but since no other tag info than that in the ID3v1 and ID3v2 tag is retained by Mp3/Tag Studio when cutting off the end of a file, the Lyrics3 data (and hence the album info displayed in Winamp) was lost when you cut off the end.
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And you could always try yourself if the problem remains in the trimmed file before you send it to me, just to be sure.