Why was the character set override option removed?

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:35, Hans Ecke wrote:
> > The tag recoding was removed because it had very unpleasant side effects.
> > In this mode, TagLib would only write v1 tags, but not v2. This generated
> > considerable confusion and a constant stream of of bug reports.
> >
> > If you need UTF-8 tags, you have to use a current ID3 version. V1 tags
> > are generally to be interpreted as ASCII.

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> Moving on, what do you recommend for me?

I recommend EasyTag. I understand it's able to batch convert your files.

[...]

> Or would it be possible to bring the tag recoding feature back, but
> either with strong wording "don't do that unless you know you need it!"
> or only settable in the amarokrc and not in the UI. Bringing it back
> would only have to be for a limited time (2 years or so) till the ID3
> tools and libraries have bugfree support for v2.4.

Chances for this are nil, sorry.

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Mark