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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Problem with ID3 encoding
From:       Andreas Pakulat <apaku () gmx ! de>
Date:       2006-07-16 11:43:34
Message-ID: 20060716114334.GB8104 () morpheus
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On 15.07.06 10:41:22, Ian Monroe wrote:
> > > How can I change that? (the encoding of the tags)
> >
> > That's not too easy, IIRC I did this by parsing the output of id3v2,
> > feeding each item (i.e. artist, track name and so on) to recode
> > utf8..latin1. Then using id3v2 to set the tag with the new value for
> > artist, title...
> >
> > I still have a script that does the opposite (i.e. convert from
> > latin1..utf8 for artist, title and album), I can send you that via PM.
> 
> The eyeD3 script has some options to change the encoding.
> 
> But anyways, I believe encoding in taglib uses UTF by default pretty
> much, though I guess it would be possible that audiocd:/ might be
> written to not use id3v2.4.

The problem is that at least amarok expects the tags to be in latin1, I
don't know if it's in taglib itself or in the app on top of it. Anyway
the problem for sure is, that "something" expects latin1 but get's
utf-8.

Andreas

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