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Topic: Preserve ID3v2.2 embedded album art? (Read 5300 times) previous topic - next topic
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Preserve ID3v2.2 embedded album art?

I recently got some mp3s from someone who uses iTunes.  They had embedded album art in each track, in ID3v2.2 only (no APE or v1).

I opened them in foobar and changed some of the tags.  I have "Force Preferred Scheme" and "Compatibility Mode" unchecked.  When foobar re-wrote the tags, it wrote them as ID3v2.4, of course.

This seems to remove the embedded album art (it is no longer visible in Mp3tag).  Even if I check "Compatibility Mode," the album art disappears.

If, however, I re-write the tags first in Mp3tag as ID3v2.3, then alter them in foobar (thus converting them to v2.4), the album art is preserved.

Basically, I want a set of tagging preferences in foobar that won't ever strip album art from tags.  I thought I had heard that foobar "doesn't touch" tag fields it doesn't understand?  Is there any hope?

I know all about iTunes' poor standards compliance, and that this problem is ultimately Apple's fault, but it's out there and one has to deal with it.

Thanks.

Preserve ID3v2.2 embedded album art?

Reply #1 –
I had issues with Foobar seemingly wiping tags/album art when I used masstagger to add ratings. Itunes didn't detect the tags but MP3Tag did - although the art did appear to be lost (resaving the tags in MP3tag resolved the problem thankfully apart from the art of course). After a bit of playing around I did a Force Preferred Scheme to ID3v2 only and have had no problems since.
 

Preserve ID3v2.2 embedded album art?

Reply #2 –
Quote from: topdownjimmy on
Basically, I want a set of tagging preferences in foobar that won't ever strip album art from tags.  I thought I had heard that foobar "doesn't touch" tag fields it doesn't understand?  Is there any hope?
It could be possible that iTunes is maiming the tags so bad that it's hard to understand where a tag begins or ends.

Quote from: topdownjimmy on
I know all about iTunes' poor standards compliance, and that this problem is ultimately Apple's fault, but it's out there and one has to deal with it.
Honestly, I don't think Peter really thinks this way.
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Preserve ID3v2.2 embedded album art?

Reply #3 –
Well it seems foobar cannot preserve cover art if it is in a ID3v2.2 tag. You can blame foobar.
So you must convert to 2.3 or 2.4 first.

Of course the fact that iTunes writes ID3v2.2 on new files by default is also stupid.