Important changes

This chapter describes important changes and news. Please have a look at the history of changes for a complete list.

Mp3tag v2.34 - Support for cover art / Import from Amazon.com

Support for cover art

With the new release Mp3tag supports embedded cover art for files with ID3v2 tags, TTA- and WMA files. You can add cover art via the

extended tag dialog at or Alt + T.

Import from Amazon.com

Besides the freedb support, Mp3tag now has the ability to get album information from Amazon.com. Just choose the small arrow from the right of the Icon freedb

and select Amazon.com. You'll get a list of matching items and can choose the album to import the tags (and cover art).

The Amazon.com import uses Mp3tag's incredible web source framework. There are even more web sources available at the Web Source Archive on the Mp3tag forums.

Please visit the Mp3tag forums if you have other questions regarding the new release.

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Mp3tag v2.33 - Support for Unicode

Probably the most import change and new feature in this version is the support for Unicode through the whole program. Mp3tag writes ID3v2 tags in Unicode format (UTF-16) by default now, but there are still some programs, portables or car radios which have problems with ID3v2 tags stored in Unicode format (though this is specified within the ID3v2 standard). To use Mp3tag with this programs or devices, simply enable the option Always write ISO-8859-1 tags instead of UTF-16 at Options > Tags > Mpeg. After that, just save the tags again by clicking File > Save tag

or by using the Ctrl + S hotkey.

If you have problems displaying tags with characters from other charsets (like cyrillic) in Mp3tag, the tags are probably stored in a system codepage instead of Unicode or ISO-8859-1. To convert these tags from a specific codepage to Unicode, simply create a new action Convert codepage, select the appropriate tag field(s) and choose the codepage from the drop-down list.

Please visit the Mp3tag forums if you have other questions regarding the new release.

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Mp3tag v2.27 - New syntax for scripting functions

The last versions had major problems with the backslash and the double quotes characters within scripting functions so we had to reimplement the part which is responsible for evaluating the built in functions.
The names of the functions did not change - you don't have to learn new function names or placeholder names.

What has changed?

There is no need to put parameters of function in double quotes anymore.
There is no need to leave the $ character from nested function calls.
There are (hopefully) no problems with backslahes and double quotes anymore.
The scripting functions $meta and $join are obsolete now.

Are there any special characters with specific functionality/limitations?

[ ... ] Displays contents of brackets only if at least one of fields referenced inside has been found.
' Outputs raw text without parsing. This will output the contained string and ignore all reserved characters (%,$,[,]) in it.
$%[]You have to put the single quote around these reserved characters if you want to use them unparsed.
'You have to put the single quote before this reserved character if you want to output a singe quote.

Examples for conversion

$num("%track%", 2) is now
$num(%track%,2)
file://$replace("%_folderpath%","\","/") is now
file://$replace(%_folderpath%,\,/)
%_tag_read% [%_tag%] is now
%_tag_read% '['%_tag%']'

Please visit the Mp3tag forums if you have other questions regarding the new release.

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