From: Magnus Holmgren <lear_at_algonet.se>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:48:34 +0100

Frederic Devernay wrote:

> That's the recommended way to tag mp3 with APEv2, to keep backward
> compatibility with older software not supporting APEv2, *and* because
> APEv2 without id3v1 may give strange behaviors with software that read
> id3v1 first (see
> <http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=32197>).
> It's not advised to use both APEv2 and id3v2, since very few softwares
> will keep them in sync.

And how is that better with APE + id3v1? Very few programs would keep
them in sync too, I'd guess. :)

Btw, were can I find that recommendation? I don't remember seeing that
anywhere (Hm... It seems like Foobar 0.8.3 actually does that).

   Magnus
Received on 2005-11-07