Tagging - ID3v2.4 vs. 2.2 : causing issues

[SamS]

With the Kurt Vile LP album "b'lieve i'm goin (deep) down", you get a digital download code for 320kbps MP3. I downloaded this today and am having a problem because of the tags.

The main album (tracks 1-12) has tracks tagged via ID3v2.4.0. The "bonus" 6 tracks are encoded with ID3v2.2.0. But because of the two different ID3 tag formats, LMS and Plex splits this up into two albums, even though the track numbers are correct. I want the album to be a single album tracks 1-18. Oddly, iTunes shows it correct, a single album.

I use Metadatatics for my tag editor. Anyway to fix this?

[bakker_be]

Hi
both versions are bad. not my favour.

ID3v2.3 supports UTF-8 and UTF-16.
The Files in my library uses always the same 2.3 UTF-8 Tags.

I dont knew your Tag Tool

Same here, only ID3v2.3 UTF-8 for MP3-files. MP3TAG works under Wine on MacOS X (https://www.mp3tag.de/en/mac-osx.html) and should be helpful in resolving your issue, as you can set it to write and remove only specific versions of ID3-tags.

[SamS]

Hi
both versions are bad. not my favour.

ID3v2.3 supports UTF-8 and UTF-16.
The Files in my library uses always the same 2.3 UTF-8 Tags.

I dont knew your Tag Tool

Same here, only ID3v2.3 UTF-8 for MP3-files. MP3TAG works under Wine on MacOS X (https://www.mp3tag.de/en/mac-osx.html) and should be helpful in resolving your issue, as you can set it to write and remove only specific versions of ID3-tags.

Thanks! Got it fixed by using MP3tag + Wine on my Mac. I had moved onto Metadatics, but had to 'dig out' MP3tag to get this sorted.

[BJW]

i use mp3tag to fix this as well, (always id3v2.3) but i use UTF 16. not sure that matters much.

just highlight all files and save tags, thats it. set the defaults in options.