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Topic: tagging c/c++ code w/o moving meta? (Read 1966 times) previous topic - next topic
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tagging c/c++ code w/o moving meta?

I'm writing some C++ code to add my own user-defined tags to .m4a's that were ripped by iTunes. The code I've found so far that can modify mp4 tags are faad2/mp4ff and mpeg4ip/libmp4v2_st60.

Both of these move the metadata to the end of the file. (Although mpeg4ip has an "optimize" method that can move it back to the beginning). I was hoping to find some C or C++ code that would take advantage of the 'free' atom that iTunes writes after the metadata to avoid wasting space in the file and/or file rewriting. Does anyone know of such a thing?

Are there any issues with iTunes being able to read files that were tagged with either of these libraries?

I ask because I've seen posts like this one that indicate iTunes may have problems with fb2k-replaygained  files. My reading of the fb2k code is that it uses faad2/mp4ff for tagging mp4 files.

Thanks for the help!

Dave