I have a question: I want to tag a mp3 with APEv2 and ID3v1 tags (like
foobar2000 do) and I found that Tag.exe can do it with "--force ID3 --force
APE2" command, but I have another need. For APEv2 tags I want to write
tag as is, but for the ID3v1 I want to write the tags without special
characters (accented characters in italian and other slavic characters) that are not readed correctly with various systems. What I
want to do is, shortly, apply the --chreplace only on ID3v1 tags. Is
this possible shortly with one command? Or maybe this can be possible if
tag.exe can be launched two times on the same file: the first time will
add APEv2 tags, but on the seccond run can only add the ID3v1 tags with chreplace. But how I can do this without that Tag.exe remove APEv2 tags?

damjang

Sorry, can't be done.

Haven't tried the new version 2.14 but according to history mp3tag is now able to write ID3V1/2- and APEV2-Tags to mp3-files:

[2003-09-06] NEW: support for writing APEv2-tags to MP3s

I guess the function

[2003-09-04] NEW: detection and removal of ID3v1-tags after APE-tags
[2003-09-05] NEW: detection and update of ID3v1-tags after APE-tags

can be enabled by request instead to be automatic.

I think I'll be happy with the new version of mp3tag as writing of different ID3V1- and APEV2-Tags seems not to be possible with Case's Tag - I have tried it some time and failed (ok, that doesn't tell us that it is not possible ) and now Case told us.

With Mp3tag you can write ID3v1- and APEv2-tags to MP3s by enabling both writing ID3v1 and APEv2 at Options, Tag, Mpeg.

After that, disable writing of APEv2-tags at Options, Tag, Mpeg, so only the ID3v1 option is enabled.

Now create a new replace set at Options, Format, Replace and run the replacement with Converter, Format or ALT+5. Since there is only writing of ID3v1-tags enabled, the replacement only occurs on the ID3v1-tag.

Hope that helps,
~ Florian