Preserve order of APIC
frames relative to each other when saving.
#676
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At the time of writing, Mutagen reorders APIC frames upon save without the user being able to influence the order, which causes issues with many players (including iTunes – which is Mutagen’s main compatibility target for MP4 files, though I’m not sure whether it is for ID3 tags) as discussed in issue #436. This implements the closest to a consensus reached in #436: APIC frames are stored last, and not reordered.
This pull request conflicts with #539, as both modify the ID3
sort_key
function – so allow me to provide a merged version of that as well: