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Lossy Audio Compression => MP3 => MP3 - General => Topic started by: Porcus on 2013-02-03 15:44:35

Title: <LENGTH> tag?
Post by: Porcus on 2013-02-03 15:44:35
Some of my mp3s display a <LENGTH> when I view tags in MP3Tag. Some don't.

Is it so that some files do and some don't, or is it just nonstandard placement/formatting/mapping that leads MP3Tag to display only some but not all?

Are these really good for anything? (Does the answer depend upon player? I use fb2k, which does not display any of these for mp3s.)

I don't think I have encountered anything that appears to be iTunes-encoded which has this, but that is maybe in these fruity Comment tags?
Title: <LENGTH> tag?
Post by: skamp on 2013-02-03 16:42:01
Could be the TLEN ID3v2.3 tag, which LAME always includes, but is completely unreliable and thus useless, because some software puts garbage in it. It's also not sample-accurate, IIRC.
Title: <LENGTH> tag?
Post by: Porcus on 2013-02-03 17:35:09
Does not help gapless playback or anything such?

(fb2k still displays > 60 different tag names in my library, so I'd like to get rid of the unnecessary ones ...)