Amarok and encodings on id3

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Sunday 25 June 2006 23:02, Christoph Burgmer wrote:
> I'm asking here first as a) my issue seems to be resolved as stated on
> bugs.kde.org and b) I can't find an amarok mailinglist.
>
> I have many songs encoded in GBK (maybe id3v1). I can't ask amarok to
> convert that to id3v2 in Unicode. An older option in the config dialogue
> seems to have disappeared.
>
> If there is no option yet I'll file a wishlist bug for a possibiliy to
> choose the encoding from the metainfo dialogue.

You need to use a third party tool (we often recommend EasyTag) to convert 
ID3V1 tags to ID3V2, which supports Unicode.

-- 
Mark