Re: [Easytag-mailing] UTF-8, id3lib and easytag

[Mark Ferry <gnomeza gmail com>]

Hey all
Ricardo Espinoza wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I changed my easytag preferences to always use Unicode but that 
> didn't do the trick, when i save them and reload it (rhythmbox or 
> easytag) they are messed up. But i believe info is still there, 
> because if i try "id3info * > test.txt" and i open it with gedit i 
> can see the correct tag information. What's wrong? Rhythmbox not 
> reading as UTF8?

UTF-8 is only valid in ID3v2.4 tags.
id3lib 3.8.3 (and therefore Easytag) supports up to ID3v2.3 and hence
doesn't write UTF-8.

Rhythmbox sees an ID3v2.3 tag and since UTF-8 is not a valid encoding
for ID3v2.3 it'll parse it incorrectly.

> Everything will be fixed with id3v2.4 ? Need extra parameters?
> Special config?
Everything will be fixed in id3v2.4.
Except that there's little incentive to do so considering that the vast
majority (of Linux users certainly) are either happy with ISO-8859 mp3
tags or are now using alternate music formats (ogg, flac).

> or tell me that it's not possible right now.
It's not possible right now.
Try using UTF-16 instead. id3lib should handle that although I seem to 
remember it being somewhat buggy...

ciao
  Mark

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