Created a Python module for ID3 MP3 tag manipulation
Timothy R Evans
tre17 at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Jun 13 21:25:54 EDT 1999
Ben Gertzfield <che at debian.org> writes:
> Hey, Pythoners! Just a quick announcement that I've created a Python
> module for easy manipulation of ID3 tags on MP3 files. These tags
> generally involve the title, artist, and other information about the
> file. I've mailed webmaster at python.org and submitted it to
> Freshmeat, so I hope it can be of use to you all.
>
> The home-page for the ID3.py module is at:
>
> http://csl.cse.ucsc.edu/~ben/python/
>
A quick pendantic note here:
Just out of interest this code apperas to do the same thing as the C
program `id3' by Robert Woodcock, so his warning also applies here.
=== from the `id3' manpage
BUGS
The ID3 format has some shortcomings. There is a 1 in
16777216 chance of your mp3 having a certain bit-pattern,
causing id3 to write over the last 128 bytes of your mp3
upon tag creation. Also because the ID3 format is space-
padded, not null-padded, trailing spaces will be ignored
by most players. Any bugs found in id3 should be forwarded
to the author, Robert Woodcock <rcw at debian.org>.
===
This is more of a problem with the id3 `standard' than with anything
else. There is a small chnace that your mp3 file will contain the
data "TAG" at just the wrong place.
--
Tim Evans
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