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kaczor47

Mar 1 2006, 04:56

Please excuse this noob....

Could someone clarify the meaning of the following LAME setting:
-V 2 --vbr-new --id3v2-only --pad-id3v2 --ta "%a" --tt "%t" --tl "%g" --ty "%y" --tn "%n" %s %d

The reason I ask is that when ripping/encoding using EAC,LAME (3.97b2) i seem to be getting two versions of the id3v2 tag, one appended after another. I am using J. River Media Center and the duplicate tags cause a problem. If I modifying the tags (using another applications, MP3tag or ID3-tagit...), it does so to only one set of ID3V2 tags.
And MC gets confused....

any help would be appreciated.
cheers!

dreamliner77

Mar 1 2006, 05:15

It adds 4kb of "padding" so that tag updates do not result in re-rewriting the file. It sounds like MC is adding a different id3v2 version tag.

kaczor47

Mar 1 2006, 05:33

QUOTE (dreamliner77 @ Mar 1 2006, 12:15 AM)

It adds 4kb of "padding" so that tag updates do not result in re-rewriting the file. It sounds like MC is adding a different id3v2 version tag.

Actually, i wonder if it's the fact that in EAC i checked off "Additionally write ID3V2 tags, using padding of 4kB". Perhaps the combination of these two causes the problem...

dreamliner77

Mar 1 2006, 06:20

Yes.

kaczor47

Mar 1 2006, 06:41

Thanks a lot!

faceless007

Mar 1 2006, 09:24

QUOTE (dreamliner77 @ Feb 28 2006, 08:15 PM)

It adds 4kb of "padding" so that tag updates do not result in re-rewriting the file. It sounds like MC is adding a different id3v2 version tag.

Actually, according to the --longhelp option, it only adds 128 bytes of extra padding.

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