To expand on what Roger just said...

The reason the difference between V1 and V2 tags is important is because not all software supports V2 tags, but both tags can reside in the file (as Roger said, they're in different locations in the file). Problems can crop up as a result.

For instance, old versions of Winamp only let you edit the V1 tag, and if there was a V2 tag in the file it would get ignored.

So, let's say your ripper program writes out a V2 tag. But it used incorrect info to fill out the song data (for example, it didn't fill out the year, or the CDDB entry had a typo in the song title).

Then you open it in an old version of WinAmp and edit the tag. But you're only editing the V1 tag at this point, the incorrect V2 tag is still sitting there untouched. The old version of WinAmp has no clue that the V2 tag is even there at all. The song information looks correct in WinAmp.

So you drop the file into Emplode, which takes the V2 tag as gospel (over the V1 tag), and Emplode gets the wrong song info.

Basically, what I'm saying is, if you're editing tags, make sure that the software you're doing the editing with supports V2 tags. The reason I started this thread was to warn people that, even though the newest version of WinAmp supports V2 tags, its support seems to be incomplete. So just beware.

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Tony Fabris