Amarok patch for local encoded ID3 tags

Scott Wheeler wheeler at kde.org
Sun Apr 20 16:57:48 CEST 2008


Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> Totally reasonable, but I believe, if my assumption is correct, that this may 
> be a better fix to put into taglib.  My assumption is that the strings we get 
> from taglib are supposed to be UTF-8...if that's the case, taglib should be 
> doing this conversion...if that's not the case, we should consider doing it 
> ourselves with your patch. [...]

This is the classical case of MP3s containing incorrect info.  The 
reason that a patch like this can't go directly into TagLib is that 
TagLib doesn't link against Qt and as such doesn't have the huge tables 
of encodings that Qt does.

-Scott


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