diff --git a/id3v2.go b/id3v2.go
index d5b3b26..dda6135 100644
--- a/id3v2.go
+++ b/id3v2.go
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ func readID3v2Frames(r io.Reader, h *ID3v2Header) (map[string]interface{}, error
 			result[rawName] = t
 
 		case name[0] == 'T':
-			txt, err := readTFrame(b, true) // text is encoded
+			txt, err := readTFrame(b)
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, err
 			}
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ func readID3v2Frames(r io.Reader, h *ID3v2Header) (map[string]interface{}, error
 			result[rawName] = t
 
 		case name[0] == 'W':
-			txt, err := readTFrame(b, false) // url are not encoded
+			txt, err := readWFrame(b)
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, err
 			}
diff --git a/id3v2frames.go b/id3v2frames.go
index ccf346e..28462a8 100644
--- a/id3v2frames.go
+++ b/id3v2frames.go
@@ -13,25 +13,24 @@ import (
 	"unicode/utf16"
 )
 
-// when the frame is not encoded, add a 0 at the start
-func readTFrame(b []byte, encoded bool) (string, error) {
-	if !encoded {
-		b = append([]byte{0}, b[0:]...)
+func readWFrame(b []byte) (string, error) {
+	// Frame text is always encoded in ISO-8859-1
+	b = append([]byte{0}, b...)
+	return readTFrame(b)
+}
+
+func readTFrame(b []byte) (string, error) {
+	if len(b) == 0 {
+		return "", nil
 	}
-	txt, err := parseText(b)
+
+	txt, err := decodeText(b[0], b[1:])
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
 	return strings.Join(strings.Split(txt, string([]byte{0})), ""), nil
 }
 
-func parseText(b []byte) (string, error) {
-	if len(b) == 0 {
-		return "", nil
-	}
-	return decodeText(b[0], b[1:])
-}
-
 func decodeText(enc byte, b []byte) (string, error) {
 	if len(b) == 0 {
 		return "", nil