Has something changed in the ID3v2 standard lately?

[pVC]

I have noticed too, that some of the new mp3 song names show up as garbage in Amplifier's playlist.

I think that Amplifier's playlist can't show ID3v2 tags, but then if mp3 has both v2 and v1 tags, then information in v1 is been shown. Sometimes both artist and song names are mess, but sometimes only other one. Have people stopped adding v1 tags? But I'm just guessing... should do some researching

[pVC]

Yeah.. it seems that Amplifier understands both v1 and v2, but there's probably unicode crap on those which don't work. They seem to have unicode on v2 tag, but plain ascii on v1 tag... but Amplifier prefers v2 if it's found.

Broken names contain ÿþ before the actual name and on playlist only that ÿþ and first char of the name is shown

Maybe there's program to batch strip v2 tags easily?-)