The state of ID3v2 support in the Linux console

Being a Windows user that only recently started to gain a genuine interest in adding Linux to my list of proficiencies, my music collection is 90% composed of MP3 files with ID3v2 tags; a sort of expected setup on Windows machines.
I particularly enjoy the more recent ID3v2 -- as opposed to ID3v1.1 -- because this allows me to store the song lyrics withing the music file. Very useful because it simplifies file management, while removing the need to be online, and many windows players (I use foobar2000) can read all the extra fields in the ID3v2 header.
For the past days I've been trying to find a console music daemon or player for Linux that fully supports ID3v2. I haven't been able to do so. For some reason that I cannot understand, the norm is ID3v1.1 support. As I understand, the Linux community tends towards the Ogg format which implies 'Vorbis comment'. Unfortunately, 'Vorbis comment' specifications suggest that type of metadata should reside on a separate stream. Which really doesn't make much sense to me when the data is so intrinsically connected to the file as is the case of music lyrics. But specifications are specifications, so I can understand I won't see many developers willing to break them. What I find curious however is why the lack of ID3v2 support. What has been stopping the community from developing full support?

Indeed foobar2000 is life changing for anyone who comes across it. It's been my player for many years. Excellent news that it is supported under Wine. I don't have the necessary resources to support it under this VMWare setup I'm currently running Arch on. But that will be a probable solution once I fully migrate to a standalone computer. Thanks Orph.
0mark wrote:PS: As far as i know, there is no common semantic to the extra fields. And then, after switching through some player, you may end up with a lot of fields with alien names and data that hat no obvious meaning.
The fields are well defined under the standard. Essentially it is all controlled by a header that specifies content and sizes of each frame. Then the frames follow with said content. As long as a player follows the standard, it's just like any other metadata that needs to be implemented (say, Vorbis).
I'm not really trying to bring a critic here. I confess seeing no support for ID3v2 shocked me. I wasn't expecting that. Instead I trust there's a reason somewhere. It's not of the Linux community in general to squander a standard. Unless... perhaps, there's a general lack of interest because ID3v2 has really only been fully implemented by the MP3 format and this format is proprietary?
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Hi! I asked this question in several places without any
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Director developers. Even though I have nothing against Lingo, I
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I prefer JavaScript to Lingo as well, mainly because I
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I was lucky enough to get a Director 11 Beta 1.0 CD-ROM
because an associate recommended me for it to Adobe. I wasn’t
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