Program to dump ID3 tag structure

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Published on 2011-12-02T22:02:43Z Indexed on 2012/08/28 9:41 UTC
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Is there a program that would dump the complete structure of ID3v2 tags?

Not just the frame names and values, but full information such as frame order, text encoding, description encoding (for TXXX frames), presence of unsynchronization, presence of multiple tags...

Background: I'm rather curious why some files are incompatible with some programs. For example, some ID3v2.4 tags written by foobar2000 are not read by Winamp; editing with Mutagen fixes them but editing with foobar2000 breaks again. It's not the version or data encoding – most other v2.4 UTF-16 tags work fine... However, if I use foobar2000 to convert the tags to v2.3, then back to v2.4, they start working fine in Winamp – this last bit just does not make any sense.

Edit: Linux or/and Windows.

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