Re: [mad-dev] Q: Is there a way to render older tag versions?

On Friday, October 18, 2002, at 11:43 PM, Mark Malson wrote:

Rob, I'm interested in allowing my users to retag their files with older versions (I think I'll limit it to v2.3 or v2.4). Is there a way to get libid3tag to render a specific version? Is it as easy as changing the version in the tag header before rendering?

While it was a goal of the library to be able to read all versions of ID3v2 tags, it was not a goal to be able to write ID3v2 tags in obsolete formats. Consequently it is not supported; changing the version in the tag header will have no effect.

Arguably, since writing ID3v1 tags is supported, the library ought to support writing tags using any known version. Maybe it could be added.