-wTXXX:desc will not update tag about id3 HOT 4 CLOSED

1. Fixed.

2. Not sure that is incorrect behaviour -- it's not needed to use UTF16 in that case. There is however an another bug in that part.

3. I am undecided about what to do about multiple tags in the interface. Right now %{TXXX} returns the first TXXX frame encountered, and %{TXXX:descriptor} can be used to be more precise. But it would also be nice to have the ability to remove, say, all TXXX frames or a specific set of TXXX frames.

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3. It would be good if all the TXXX values could be retrieved, somehow. Often the "descriptor" is unknown.

4. I think the problem here was that the "descriptor" was not delimiter correctly, if my memory serves me correctly. Or, it could have been that encoding was not specified.

Side note: Usually users can recover media from vendor sources or from CD after a catastrophe, however, the metadata—which may be curated for years—is lost. Ideally, it would be good to have a tool that extract all metadata from a library of audio files as a backup, using the MD5 of the audio segment as reference.

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I think I fixed issues with these frames (TXXX/WXXX/COMM/USER), so I'm closing this now.

Adding a "detailed view" was on the TODO list for a long time, so I added that now. I'm considering writing something that reads that some format back in, which would allow some form of what you propose, as well as a crude interactive mass-tagger using an external text-editor.

Of course, the complete tags themselves can already be copied by using -D/--duplicate:

for f in FILES; do
  touch "${f}.tag"  
  id3 -123 --duplicate "$f" "${f}.tag"
done

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Thanks much. I will test and respond.

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