Hello; thanks for this great library. I can read tags just fine, but cannot seem to write tags that can be read in WMP or the Ubuntu id3v2 linux client, or pass MP3diags. WMP shows no details, Winamp shows some details but gets the genre wrong (shows "blues" when it's "speech"), id3v2 for linux shows the correct genre and that tags have been written but are empty, and MP3diags says:

ID3V2.3.0 tag contains a text frame encoded as UTF-8, which is valid in ID3V2.4.0 but not in ID3V2.3.0. (Frame:TPUB)

I've followed the Wiki very closely, using all of your examples.

The version I'm using is the very latest, checked out via SVN: * @version $Id: Id3v2.php 218 2011-05-02 19:35:18Z svollbehr $

My code looks like this - and as you can see, I am even trying utf8_decode on some of the fields.

Server OS: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic - Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit. HTTP Server: nginx/1.2.3 PHP Version: 5.3.15-1~dotdeb.0 (Zend: 2.3.0) PHP Memory Limit: 256M

<?php defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');

require_once 'Zend/Media/Id3v2.php'; require_once 'Zend/Media/Id3/Encoding.php'; require_once 'Zend/Media/Id3/TextFrame.php'; require_once 'Zend/Media/Id3/Frame/Tpub.php'; require_once 'Zend/Media/Id3/Frame/Talb.php'; require_once 'Zend/Media/Id3/Frame/Txxx.php'; require_once 'Zend/Media/Id3/Frame/Tpe3.php'; require_once 'Zend/Media/Id3/Frame/Tpe4.php'; require_once 'Zend/Media/Id3/Frame/Tenc.php'; require_once 'Zend/Media/Id3/Frame/Tcon.php'; require_once 'Zend/Media/Id3/Frame/Trck.php'; require_once 'Zend/Media/Id3/Frame/Tit1.php'; require_once 'Zend/Media/Id3/Frame/Tit2.php'; require_once 'Zend/Media/Id3/Exception.php'; try { $id3 = new Zend_Media_Id3v2("file.mp3", array( "version" => 3.0, "encoding" => Zend_Media_Id3_Encoding::ISO88591, "compat" => true ));

$id3->tpub->text = utf8_decode("publisher"); //the main group
$id3->tit1->text = utf8_decode("title 1"); //the publication
$id3->talb->text = utf8_decode("edition");
$id3->tit2->text = "track_name";
$id3->tpe4->text = "producer";
$id3->tenc->text = "Talking Newspaper Services Ltd";
$id3->tpe3->text = "The editor was John";
$id3->tcon->text = "Speech";

$id3->write(null);

} catch (Zend_Media_Id3_Exception $e) { echo " " . $e->getMessage() . "\n"; continue; }

I meant to say that mp3diags gives that UFT8 message for ALL frames; however, in the "raw data" panel below, I can see that the data IS there, even though windows and other taggers (except winamp) won't display it.

New texts can be set using setText(string) with the default encoding (which is UTF-8). Should you want to set the new text in ISO8859-1 encoding you can call setText(string, Zend_Media_Id3_Encoding::ISO88591). The text is stored in the class unaltered (ie assumed to be in the given encoding).

It was good that you reported this incident. The default value of the class should indeed correspond to the given options. I have made a patch and committed that to the repository. Please checkout the latest code and report any further faults.