OK, i’ve made some test and tagged a short mp3 with the setup described above.
easytag settings: NO write id3 to flac, OK strip blank tags, OK auto convert old id3v2, NO use crc, NO use compress, OK write id3v2, id3v2 version 2.3, id3v2 charset: other iso-8859-1 TRANSLIT, NO id3v1, read charset standard
I’ve tagged the test file with 3 different genre and paste the header in hex and text here:
easytag: Electronic
49 44 33 03 00 00 00 00 06 3A 54 43 4F 4E 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 28 35 32 29 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ID3…:TCON…(52)…
fuze: Electronic
easytag: blablabla
49 44 33 03 00 00 00 00 06 3A 54 43 4F 4E 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 62 6C 61 62 6C 61 62 6C 61 00 00
ID3…:TCON…blablabla…
fuze: blablabla
easytag: Synthpop
49 44 33 03 00 00 00 00 06 3A 54 43 4F 4E 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 28 31 34 37 29 00 00 00 00 00 00
ID3…:TCON…(147)…
fuze: Unknown
It is clear that ‘Synthpop’ is a default genre -like i suspected it before- with the code of 147. By wikipedia there is such a list but it is used in id3v1 and represented in a single byte not in plain text between brackets. Here is a list of genres. Another list.
