Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Tag writing, UTF-8/Latin1

["Andrew Conkling" <andrew conkling gmail com>]

On 9/18/06, Joe Wreschnig <piman sacredchao net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 08:36 -0400, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> > If you find that RB doesn't meet your needs for tagging, EasyTAG is
> > pretty awesome for tagging/organizing, even if your music collection
> > is so-vast. ;)
>
> I don't like to astroturf, but I'm sick of seeing EasyTag recommended.
> EasyTag uses id3lib, which does not support Unicode or ID3v2.4 properly.
> It writes ID3v2 tags to Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files. It is not a good tool
> for tagging. Let me make this clear: It's not that I just don't like the
> application, but it regularly corrupts files and cannot do its primary
> task correctly.
>
> Even if you don't like Quod Libet, I strongly suggest you check out Ex
> Falso, which is our tagging-only application. It does all of that
> properly. Otherwise, anything based on TagLib is also correct (Cowbell,
> Rhythmbox, Amarok, JuK), but the tools vary in terms of how well they
> support mass tagging.

I've never had problems with EasyTAG, but maybe I'm not a tag purist.
(In other words, my tags work everywhere I use them... MP3, OGG, or
FLAC.)

As for the others, I'm checking them out.  They look nice.  Does
either work with MusicBrainz?