Amarok and unicode tags?

[Jared Kidd]

Ok, that makes sense.  Is there any way I can get Amarok to drop down
to using version 2.3?  It's driving me nuts to not be able to have
Japanese music show correctly on the portable music player that I
bought in Japan.

On 6/21/06, Mark Kretschmann <markey at web.de> wrote:
> 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 while some other, inferior software can only process the outdated version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.
>
> --
> Mark
>