discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Marcus Valentine <marcus AT irational.org>]

Hi

As buried in the comments on http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/4279,

an mp3 tagged with ccTag is unreadable by Windows Media Player.

Windows Media Player 10 helpfully provides the following information:

<Windows Media Player says>

C00D0BB8: Cannot play the file

Windows Media Player cannot play the file. You might encounter this error 
message for the following reason:

You are trying to play an MP3 file that contains compressed ID3 headers. 
The ID3 header is a portion of the file that stores the song's album 
information (for example, the song name, artist name, album name, and 
genre). This information is sometimes called a "tag."

To fix the problem, make a copy of the file and then use a non-Microsoft 
ID3 tag editing program to remove or reset the file's ID3 headers. After 
you remove the ID3 headers, Windows Media Player should be able to play the 
MP3 file.

</Windows Media Player says>

To my mind this is a serious problem. I am attempting to embed a media 
player in a web page to play tagged mp3s. The following simple snippet of 
code successfully embeds a player when viewed with Firefox with quicktime 
available.

<embed src="my_mp3.mp3" type="video/Quicktime"></embed>

When viewed in IE, it appears IE decides to embed windows media player as 
the player, without any help from quicktime, thank you very much. I am not 
aware of a way of forcing IE to use quicktime.

Needless to say, when a tagged MP3 is used, windows media player then folds 
its arm and refuses to play the MP3.

Any ideas?

Marcus Valentine