When is Amarok 2 ever going to support tags properly?

[Xamindar]

On 02/06/2010 01:23 PM, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> On 02/06/2010 11:38 AM, Xamindar wrote:
>> > 
>> > 
>> > On 02/06/2010 05:28 AM, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>>> >> On 02/06/2010 07:27 AM, Xamindar wrote:
>>>> >>> I have been waiting I think over two years and finally decided to ask
>>>> >>> here. Ever sense I switched over to Amarok 2 from 1.4.whatever it was
>>>> >>> some of my songs show up as "???????" in my playlist. I had already gone
>>>> >>> through ALL my mp3 collection a few years ago on the old 1.4 version and
>>>> >>> made them all consistent. But once I switched to amarok 2 some of them
>>>> >>> are unknown and have "????" in most of the fields. I know nothing is
>>>> >>> wrong with these tags as they still show correctly in other programs
>>>> >>> such as easytag. All I can think of is that Amarok 2 doesn't know how to
>>>> >>> handle Japanese characters properly. I attached two images that show the
>>>> >>> problem. Hopefully this will get fixed as it has been a problem for a
>>>> >>> very very long time.
>>> >>
>>> >> Maybe you should try 2.2.2.
>>> >>
>> > I am running Amarok 2.2.2.
> Try rescanning your collection. This should have happened on upgrade but
> for some reason didn't happen for a lot of people. Before you rescan,
> make sure you go to Settings->Collection and ensure that the character
> set detector is not being used.
> 
> If there is a remaining issue with this past 2.2.2, I don't know about it.
> 
> --Jeff
> 
Thank you! I think that did it. There were still some ????? after the
rescan but no files in those sections. I closed Amarok, blashed its
config away and reloaded it and now there are no ????? items any more.