Re: [Easytag-mailing] Easytag's UTF8

[Jérôme COUDERC <easytag gmail com>]

Hi,

   In my current development version, I was just working on the Unicode 
support (UTF-16) for ID3 tags with id3lib.
And thanks to the help of Javier Kohen and Alexey Illarionov, we succeed 
to implement it (after fixing lots of problems).

We have still some work to end before releasing a new version, but it 
will be available sooner ;-)

Regards,
Jerome


svarog gmail com wrote, the 10.10.2005 00:21 :

> Hello I have tagged about 27000+ files with easytag so thanks!!
> Forever I have been using xmms and beep media player to play my mp3s 
> but now I went to try out amarok!
> And amarok won't read my utf8 encoded tags properly.
>
> I tracked this whole thing down a little bit
>
> ID3v2.3 only supports Unicode as UTF-16LE with BOM and UTF-16BE 
> without BOM. UTF-8 is new to ID3v2.4 .
>
> easytag i think uses id3lib which writes id3v2.3 tags, and id3v2.3 
> tags only support UTF-16LE with BOM (i dont kow what that is) and 
> UTF-16BE with no BOM. UTF-8 only works in id3v2.4.
>
> Therefore amarok which uses taglib, reads my tags broken, because they 
> aren't really unicode, just with unicode stuff i the frames broken.
>
> So would it be really easy to make easytag use taglib, is it just 
> matter of replacing all calls to taglib instead of the other one?? 
> Here is some debugging i was doing
>
>
> Here I look at a tag written in unicode by easytag wiht id3v2
> #id3v2 -l *01*
> id3v2 tag info for Любэ - Песни о Людях - 01 - Там За Туманами.mp3:
> TIT2 (Title/songname/content description): Там За Туманами
> TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): Любэ
> TALB (Album/Movie/Show title): Песни о Людях
> TRCK (Track number/Position in set): 01
> TCON (Content type): x (255)
> TLEN (Length): 229000
>
>
> it looks good
>
> Here same file not changed with eyeD3
>
> eyeD3 *01*
>
> Любэ - Песни о Людях - 01 - Там За Туманами.mp3 [ 8.75 MB ]
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Time: 3:49      MPEG1, Layer III        [ 320 kb/s @ 44100 Hz - Joint 
> stereo ]
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
> ID3 v2.3:
> title: Там Ðа ТÑманами               artist: ÐбÑ
> album: ÐеÑни о ÐдÑÑ                year: None
> track: 1                genre: x (id None)
>
>
>
> and those are the same characters taht show up in amarok and bunch of 
> other players, but not beep-media-player
>
> the beep media player just ignores the headings, can't force ay other 
> music player to do that though :[


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