Re: [Easytag-mailing] automatic corrections, linux/windows

[Bart Sjerps <bs xs4all nl>]

On 06/06/2010 10:14 PM, Simone Neugierig wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ive tagged my files via easytag 2.1.6 on windows accessing the files via sftpdrive(this is the windows sshfs equivalent).
> if i now open the files in linux with the same easytag version it tries to apply "automatic corrections", after applying and reading the files with the windows version it again does do automatic corrections...why is this?
>
> is this maybe because of different encodings?
>   
This could be, or because of another setting in "ID3 Settings" tab.
Check if the settings are equal in both windows and linux versions.
Especially ID3 version, encoding, and whether or not to write ID3v1 tags.

I also experienced similar strange behaviour in Windows when accessing
files across smb (i.e. Samba) when sometimes valid filenames in Linux
are getting messed up in Windows.

If you really want to know what happened, I would advise you to compare
the same file updated with windows to the original one under linux and
see where the files differ.
A good util to check this is xxd (hexdump) i.e. xxd -c 32 <file>
then use "xxd -c 32 <file> | head -50" or "xxd -c 32 <file> | tail -50"
to see the first resp. last 50 hexdump lines of the file. Should give
you an idea what happened.

Regards
Bart