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How can I stop mutagen automatically updating the ID3 version?

When I tried to embed album art in an MP3, mutagen updated the ID3 tag to version 2.4 - which I don't want, because in ID3v2.4 my cell phone (which runs Windows Phone 8) and my computer can't recognize the tags.

Apparently, simply changing the mutagen.id3.version attribute doesn't work: the real version doesn't change.

Solution

  • Update: this is now fixed, as pointed out by JayRizzo in a comment to this answer.

    Sadly, you can't. From the docs:

    Mutagen is only capable of writing ID3v2.4 tags ...

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