Bug in OriginalArtist??

[AndrewC]

Hi all-

Just started with UltraID3Lib, and now that I am getting up to speed with the methods for retrieving non-"standard" frames, I am well pleased with it, and appreciative that such a professionally-written library is free.

However-- I think I may have discovered a bug. When I try to retrieve the OriginalArtist data from an ID3v2 Tag which I know has data, the GetFrame() function returns Nothing, as in "null", for the Frame. Here is the function call I am using:

Dim MyOriginalArtist As ID3v2OriginalArtistFrame = _
                            CType(Me.ID3v2Tag.Frames.GetFrame(CommonSingleInstanceID3v2FrameTypes.OriginalArtist),  _
                            ID3v2OriginalArtistFrame)

Interestingly, when I ask for the OriginalAlbum frame data, then cast it to OriginalArtist, I get the value that is actually in the OriginalArtist frame. This leads me to believe that there is a bug, of the CopyCode/PasteCode/forget-to-change-a-value variety, in the GetFrame() function. Here's the workaround code that actually works, to get OriginalArtist:

Dim MyOriginalArtist As ID3v2OriginalArtistFrame = _
                           CType(Me.ID3v2Tag.Frames.GetFrame(CommonSingleInstanceID3v2FrameTypes.OriginalAlbum),  _
                           ID3v2OriginalArtistFrame)

A quick look at the MP3 file in question in a hex editor confirms the fact that the OriginalArtist frame is present in the file, and the OriginalAlbum frame is not. So why am I getting Nothing when I ask for Artist data, but getting Artist data when I ask for Album data?

While I can work around this, due to the fact that I don't actually require the data in the OriginalAlbum frame, I'd like to confirm this one way or the other. I'm also curious, if this is a bug, about what will happen when I try to save the OriginalArtist data back to the file; I haven't actually tried that yet.


So, is this a bug, or am I missing something? AFAICT the OriginalArtist frame is not/should not be a "child" of the OriginalAlbum frame...right?


Thanks,

-Andrew