Somehow that doesn't sound right. Looked it up. Not that Id3 is a "standard" per se. www.id3.org Doesn't look like
"freeform text" unless perhaps its storing Unicode?


" TCO
The content type, which previously (in ID3v1.1, see appendix A) was
stored as a one byte numeric value only, is now a numeric string. You
may use one or several of the types as ID3v1.1 did or, since the
category list would be impossible to maintain with accurate and up to
date categories, define your own.
References to the ID3v1 genres can be made by, as first byte, enter
"(" followed by a number from the genres list (section A.3.) and
ended with a ")" character. This is optionally followed by a
refinement, e.g. "(21)" or "(4)Eurodisco". Several references can be
made in the same frame, e.g. "(51)(39)". If the refinement should
begin with a "(" character it should be replaced with "((", e.g. "((I
can figure out any genre)" or "(55)((I think...)". The following new
content types is defined in ID3v2 and is implemented in the same way
as the numerig content types, e.g. "(RX)"

So its a numeric string, meaning tables. must be the winamp
and emplode tables don't match? ;(

no v1 tagging left. using winamp 2.77 and looked at this in
tag studio (I hate ad/spyware) and they looked correct.
Used a hex editor and pfe as well to examine the header,
seems that winamp can do several different things with the
frame used for "content". Either use a tabled tag if you
select from the list or if you type in freeform, stores that.

Ed