ID3 Tags get Trimmed after 30 chars?

[libertyct]

I am working with the ID3_GET_TAG() func to read mp3 information from a directory. The id3 tags are returned successfully but some attributes with longer string values for example: song title, are being trimmed to just 30 characters. It does not make any sense to me why you would force to cap-off the number of characters in the song title at just 30 and I haven't been successfully in my attempts to overwrite the default 30 character limit from either the .ini file or within my code.

 

Can you recommend a solution to get around this?

 

see:

 

http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.id3-get-tag.php