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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Problem with ID3 encoding
From:       Florian Lindner <mailinglists () xgm ! de>
Date:       2006-07-16 12:03:00
Message-ID: 200607161403.01335.mailinglists () xgm ! de
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Am Sonntag, 16. Juli 2006 13:43 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> 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.

The Konqurere meta info screen, juk and the iPod nano obviously except latin1 
too. But I can't get kaudiocreator or the audiocd kioslave to make it 
latin1...

Anyone knows a good cd ripping application that can do that?

Florian
 
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