Anyone know the character limit of ID3V2 tags?

What's more important is what the limit is for the database entries in Emplode. I believe each field is more limited than even a V2 tag. Remember that the empeg does not use the tags or the file names at all. It only uses its internal database. So all the important limitations are the ones imposed by the database.

For instance, maybe you might have a V2 tag with a 300-character field, but Emplode will truncate that to 255 characters upon input into its database. I think 255 is the limit, not certain.

Remember, though that this is per field, not for the entire tag. Your example of a long song title was only 90 characters long. The artist and album titles have separate limitations.

I wonder, are some of your problems due to the fact that you're trying to cram all the information into the single Title field instead of splitting up the artist/album/year data into their proper fields?

So I'll look into this Tag Studio thing,.. but probably will not end up using it simply because it is a Windows based and those tools really don't lend themselves to automation very well.

MP3 Tag Studio does a decent job of automating mass rewrites, assuming you know what you're doing with it. And you really only have to do it once. Run it on your big collection and be done. Then just make sure that any new files get added with the proper tag data.

The only scary part is the sheer size of your collection. One mistake in Tag Studio and you might ruin the tags on your entire collection. So I recommend that you practice with it a bit on a small subset copy of your collection, and check its results carefully, until you understand how it works.

The Linux/Perl option sounds good too, if you're comfortable with that.


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Tony Fabris