Amarok and unicode tags?

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Thursday 22 June 2006 08:01, Xamindar wrote:
> I have used Amarok to organize all my Japanese music.  I went through
> and fixed all the tags with Japanese names.  Amarok displays everything
> just fine.  But when I view the files in windows explorer or on my
> portable music device the tag info is all garbage.  What unicode is
> Amarok using?  Whatever it is seems to only work with Amarok.  How can I
> change it or fix this problem?

It's because Amarok (through TagLib) always writes the modern ID3-v2.4 tags, 
while some other, inferior software can only process the outdated version 
2.3. In this case they fall back to reading the ID3-v1 tag, which does not 
offer Unicode.

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Mark