Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Japanese support - solution

[Andy Howell <AndyHowell austin rr com>]

Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 03:46:17PM -0500, Andy Howell wrote:
> > Mika Wahlroos wrote:
> >
> > > Are the tags correct and is their character encoding specified 
> > > correctly?
> > Mika,
> >
> > 	You were right about the character encoding. Its Shift JIS. Thats what 
> > causing me problems. Thanks.
>
> You may be able to work around this by setting the
> GST_ID3_TAG_ENCODING environment variable to match the encoding in the
> files.

All,

I came across a nice tag editor, EasyTAG http://easytag.sourceforge.net/
that does bulk re-encoding of the tags. It worked on almost all my
files. If I removed the id3v1 tags from the file, EasyTAG was works on
everything.

Azat on the EasyTAG list pointed me to another package to do everything:

find -iname '*.mp3' -print0 | xargs -0 `which mid3iconv` -eShift_JIS
--remove-v1

On Fedora, the mid3iconv is in the RPM python-mutagen-1.12-1.fc7

I just used it to remove the id3v1 tags and EasyTAG did the re-encoding.
I haven't tried the encoding change implied by the -eShift_JIS option on
the command line above.

Thanks everyone for your help.

Andy