MusicIP complains about "Error decoding ID3 tag (invalid encoding)"

**Henry66** · 2012-01-04, 23:13

When MusicIP is going through my library its log contains the following warning about many of my MP3 files:
Error decoding ID3 tag (invalid encoding)

How can I tell which specific tag it does not like?
I use MP3Tag, foobar2000 and MediaMonkey to set various tags.

**bookemdano** · 2012-01-04, 23:59

Just guessing here but maybe it doesn't like ID3v2.4 tags? I've found ID2v2.3 is better to use for broader compatibility. I'm pretty sure you can use mp3tag to convert 2.4 to 2.3.

Worth a shot maybe.

**Henry66** · 2012-01-05, 11:48

Originally Posted by bookemdano

Just guessing here but maybe it doesn't like ID3v2.4 tags?

That could be it. Will try it tonight.

**Henry66** · 2012-01-06, 13:07

That must have been it. I am not getting errors any more.

**raven22** · 2012-01-10, 01:13

in the musicip mixer gui settings, you can select an option for id3 2.4

**Henry66** · 2012-01-10, 07:05

Originally Posted by raven22

in the musicip mixer gui settings, you can select an option for id3 2.4

I have had that enabled since I started using MusicIP. Still it didn't seem to like some 2.4 tag changes that happened recently.

**Philip Meyer** · 2012-01-10, 17:30

>Just guessing here but maybe it doesn't like ID3v2.4 tags? I've found
>ID2v2.3 is better to use for broader compatibility. I'm pretty sure you
>can use mp3tag to convert 2.4 to 2.3.
>
All of my mp3 files are v2.4, and MusicIP is fine with them.

**probedb** · 2012-01-13, 07:28

It's probably the encoding as it says rather than the tag version. I.e. maybe it doesn't support UTF-8 or UTF-16?

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