Saved ID3v2 tag not compatible with WinAmp 2.95 #923

avengerx · 2025-10-27T04:51:12Z

avengerx
Oct 27, 2025

Edit: Sorry, I can't delete this. It was meant to go to tyrrrz/YoutubeDownloader.

Please disregard this question and jump there if interested: Tyrrrz/YoutubeDownloader#740

For compatibility reasons, I wanted to save the new mp3s' ID3v2 tag under its own 2.0 revision. Is there a way I can do it? I see in the UI I can't really choose it, and it is nice how the id3v2 tag contains info extracted from youtube.

Actually... I'm not sure what's going on. If I, say, download a music from Aerosmith, I get id3v1 but no id3v2 in WinAmp 2.95 (yes, that's that old one).

Then if I use squell's id3 tool, I see:

$ id3 -2v Cryin\'.mp3
#file   Cryin'.mp3
#tag    ID3v2 3.0
{TSSE}
        Lavf58.27.102
(...)

If I just replace the ID3v2 in-place:

id3 --duplicate I_Dont_Want_to_Miss_a_Thing.mp3 -2 I_Dont_Want_to_Miss_a_Thing.mp3

Then voila, WinAmp shows its id3v2.
By Inspecting the tag again I see the same ID3v2 3.0, so there's something kinda hideous going on. I've googled somewhere else somebody having problem with ID3 tags due to its text encoding. Like, it was saving as UTF-16 but UTF-8 or Latin1 (ISO-8859-1) worked for them... Could this be the cause?

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Oct 27, 2025