I believe that your problem is due to this part of the spec you linked to:

Frames that allow different types of text encoding contains a text encoding description byte. Possible encodings:

$00
ISO-8859-1 [ISO-8859-1]. Terminated with $00.
$01
UTF-16 [UTF-16] encoded Unicode [UNICODE] with BOM. All strings in the same frame SHALL have the same byteorder. Terminated with $00 00.
$02
UTF-16BE [UTF-16] encoded Unicode [UNICODE] without BOM. Terminated with $00 00.
$03
UTF-8 [UTF-8] encoded Unicode [UNICODE]. Terminated with $00.

You don't notice that your "read" program is sending the "\0" byte at the front of such values.

- tye        

In reply to Re: ID3 tag version 2.4.0 Pack and Unpack (text encoding byte) by tye
in thread ID3 tag version 2.4.0 Pack and Unpack by thanos1983

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