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ID3 comments inserting spacing

I am editing some MP3 tags in ITUNES and want to insert comments in 4 line increments like this:



Aaaaaaaaa

Bbbbbbbb

CCCccc

Ddddddd



The only way to do this is copy and paste because enter SAVES the get info screen.



Also in Mac it displays as is but in windows Itunes the above will display as



Aaaaaaaaa Bbbbbbbbb Cccccc Dddddddd  in one line.

I know this is partly an Itunes question but I have tried other editors with the same result in spacing.
Why the difference between mac and windows?

Any suggestions?

ID3 comments inserting spacing

Reply #1
One possibility could be the different characters used to mean "new line" in mac versus windows (versus unix/linux).

Windows = CR LF  (both need to be present)
Unix, Mac OS X = LF
Older Mac OS = CR

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline )

ID3 comments inserting spacing

Reply #2
The only way to do this is copy and paste because enter SAVES the get info screen.

Try Shift+Enter to give you a new line, or if that doesn't work try Control+Enter or Alt+Enter. Unfortunately that won't fix the new line problem....

 

ID3 comments inserting spacing

Reply #3
It certainly sounds like a character encoding issue, specifically the issue with the newlines.

I haven't owned an Apple since the late 90s, but my understanding is that OS X will display Windows-style newlines correctly. If that's the case, you could try tagging a file in Windows then checking that it displays correctly in Mac OS.

Another option might be to use a different program for tagging. I use foobar2000, but that's only on Windows currently and I've never checked how it handles newlines.