Encoding of ID3 tags in mp3s

[Dotan Cohen]

On 11/07/06, Florian Lindner <mailinglists at xgm.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> I use the audiocd kioslave to rip CDs and encode to mp3.
> The filenames are taken from the CDDB and appear to be enocded correctly. (for
> example the accents in the spanish versiion of Shakira - Fijacion Oral). But
> the ID3 tags seem to have a problem with the encoding, amarok and my iPod
> nano for example show titles that look like that:  Escondite inglĂ(c)s
>
> id3info shows correct title on the command line:
>
> florian at horus ~/Desktop/Musik/Lieder/Shakira/Shakira - Fijacion Oral $ id3info
> Shakira\ -\ Escondite\ inglés.mp3
>
> *** Tag information for Shakira - Escondite inglés.mp3
> === TSSE (Software/Hardware and settings used for encoding): LAME v3.96.1
> === TIT2 (Title/songname/content description): Escondite inglés
> === TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): Shakira
> === TALB (Album/Movie/Show title): Fijación Oral, Vol. 1 [DualDisc]
> === TYER (Year): 2005
> === TRCK (Track number/Position in set): 6
> === TCON (Content type): (13)
> *** mp3 info
> MPEG1/layer III
> Bitrate: 192KBps
> Frequency: 44KHz
>
> My locale is:
>
> LANG = de_DE.UTF-8
>
> Thanks,
>
> Florian

Check that you're using ID3 v2.4 and not v2.3 tags. I have had a lot
of trouble with UTF-8 characters that aren't in ascii in v2.3 tags. It
appears that v2.3 does not support UTF-8.

Dotan Cohen
http://EssentiaLinux.com
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