• From: Singapore
  • Registered: 2007-02-13

Topic: Blank, empty or "cut off" tags in Windows, WMP or other media players

If after tagging your files with Picard you observe

- blank tags for basic fields such as artist, title, album
- or, tags for basic fields which are "cropped" or "cut off" after 30 characters

This is potentially because the software you are using does not support ID3 v2.4 correctly, yet your Picard installation is set to tag with 2.4. You can change this in the options to use ID3 v2.3 which is more widely and reliably supported.

In the second case above, since the 2.4 tags are not supported, your application may fall back on any ID3 v1 tags also in the files, which have limitations on length.

Lots of current commonly used software still has issues with ID3 v2.4, including
- Windows Vista and Windows 7 Explorers
- Windows Media Player (up to 11 at least)
- iTunes (for embedded cover art in some versions, most other tags should be okay)

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  • Registered: 2009-05-19

Re: Blank, empty or "cut off" tags in Windows, WMP or other media players

Confirming this also effects the Sansa line of MP3 players (at least the fuze).  Tags are truncated by both ID3 version and encoding, and different tags are truncated different amounts.  For example, ID3v2.4 with UTF-8 is limited to 16 characters for artist tags.

3 Reply by ym

  • ym
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  • From: Istanbul, Turkey
  • Registered: 2008-10-08

Re: Blank, empty or "cut off" tags in Windows, WMP or other media players

hi,
yesterday I figured out something weird. My m4a files tagged with Picard are not recognized in Foobar2000. After I resave same tags in Mp3Tag, Foobar2000 displays all the tags.

Anyone had something like this? Maybe a Foobar2000 bug?

  • From: Singapore
  • Registered: 2007-02-13

Re: Blank, empty or "cut off" tags in Windows, WMP or other media players

ym wrote:

hi,
yesterday I figured out something weird. My m4a files tagged with Picard are not recognized in Foobar2000. After I resave same tags in Mp3Tag, Foobar2000 displays all the tags.

Anyone had something like this? Maybe a Foobar2000 bug?

Probably. Possibly the same as this?

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